1. That gives Chrome OS nearly an entire additional year to compete against Windows 8.1.

2. The number has nearly tripled since the end of 2009.

3. In January, new local currency loans nearly tripled from the month before to $218bn.

4. That would be a gain of nearly 170%.

5. The total of the damages award plus interest comes to nearly $144,000.

6. The drugs have a street value of nearly $800,000.

7. New Orleans is a mostly black city of nearly 390,000.

8. Residents complained of having to wait nearly an hour for officers to arrive if they dialed 911.

9. He was given one year of probation and fined nearly $3,000.

10. Even Facebook, riding a wave of mobile advertising growth, is off its March high nearly 20%.

11. In fact, it led to nearly a billion dollars loss due to poor sales of the Surface RT tablet in 2013.

12. The Nexus 5 comes with nearly the same design as the Nexus 4.

13. Forest shares were up nearly 28 percent at $91.04.

14. The franc still nearly hit parity with the euro in August 2011.

15. The Ebola outbreak has infected at least 1,200 people and killed nearly 700.