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Maria sou sulke nederigheid nodig hê, want die engel het ’n byna ongelooflike voorreg aan haar voorgehou.
Mary would need such humility, for the angel held out to her an almost unimaginable privilege.

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Maar ’n albino se iris is byna deurskynend, wat beteken dat dit lig deurlaat en irritasie veroorsaak.
However, an albino’s iris is nearly translucent, which allows stray light to pass through it and cause irritation.

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Soortgelyke frases

Byna-bedreigde spesie
near threatened

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BYNA ’n miljoen mense is die afgelope drie jaar deur Jehovah se Getuies gedoop.
CLOSE to a million people were baptized by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the last three years.

Byna al die sterre wat ons snags kan sien, is so ver van ons af dat hulle net ligkolletjies bly al kyk ons deur die grootste teleskope na hulle.
Nearly all the stars that we can see at night are so far from us that they remain mere points of light when viewed through the largest telescopes.

Gedurende byna agt jaar van oorlog het daar nagenoeg 400 000 Iranese gesneuwel—meer oorlogslagoffers as wat die Verenigde State in die Tweede Wêreldoorlog gehad het!
During nearly eight years of war, Iran suffered an estimated 400,000 deaths —more battle deaths than the United States had during World War II!

Net voedselvervaardigers meld “byna geen vermorsing van kos nie”.
Only food manufacturers report “almost zero food waste.”

Binne vyf jaar (1993-98) is die aantal diere met byna die helfte verminder, en teen 2002 was die bevolking 97 persent minder.
In five years (1993-98), the number of animals almost halved, and by 2002 the population had plummeted by 97 percent.

Sedertdien het die CFK-konsentrasie “met byna een persent per jaar gedaal”, sê ECOS.
Since then, CFC concentrations have been “falling by almost one per cent per year,” states ECOS.

Diegene wat lojaal aan die Kerk van Skotland was, het dit as “byna lasterlik” beskou vir onopgevoede mense “wat weef, naaldwerk doen of ploeg” om voor te gee dat hulle die Bybel verstaan en sy boodskap te verkondig.
Those loyal to the Church of Scotland considered it “little short of blasphemy” for uneducated men “bred to the loom, the needle, or the plough” to pretend to understand the Bible and preach its message.

Sedert sy dood in 1921 is Dobson al byna 80 jaar weg; tyd is nog hier.
Since his death in 1921, Dobson has been gone for almost 80 years; time has continued.

In die Verenigde State vloei daar elke jaar byna 60 persent meer water in die see uit die Mississippirivier alleen as uit al die riviere en strome in Australië saam.
In the United States, the Mississippi River alone empties almost 60 percent more water into the sea each year than all the rivers and streams in Australia combined.

Hulle weier al byna 90 jaar lank, sedert 1919, om die merk van die wilde dier te aanvaar of om op sy beeld te vertrou as die mens se enigste hoop op vrede.
For almost 90 years since 1919, they have refused to accept the mark of the wild beast or look to its image as man’s only hope for peace.

Lasarus se suster Maria het Jesus se voete eenmaal met welriekende olie gesalf wat byna ’n jaar se loon gekos het!
Lazarus’ sister Mary once greased Jesus’ feet with perfumed oil that cost nearly a year’s wages!

Die Fish- Beertje begin deur die vervaardiging van onder sy arm in ́n groot letter, byna soos groot soos homself, en hy oorhandig aan die ander sê, in ́n plegtige toon,
The Fish- Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn tone,

Toe ons met die reisende bediening begin het, het byna almal iets gesê oor hoe jonk ons was.
When we began the traveling ministry, almost everyone remarked about our youthfulness.

Laventel word al byna 2 000 jaar lank vir mediese doeleindes gebruik.
The medicinal use of lavender dates back nearly 2,000 years.

Byna die volgende oomblik het ́n wonderlike ding gebeur het.
Almost the next moment a wonderful thing happened.

Bruin boomslange het die woudvoëls in Guam byna uitgewis
Brown tree snakes have almost exterminated the forest birds in Guam

Omdat byna al die broers in kampe was, is sy as die groepkneg aangestel.
Since almost all the brothers were imprisoned in camps, she was appointed as the group servant.

Hy het beslis, in so ’n mate dat byna 40 000 per jaar uitgesit word, die meeste weens onsedelikheid.
He certainly has, to the extent that almost 40,000 a year are disfellowshipped, most because of immorality.

Juliet " Dit is byna oggend, ek sal jou gegaan het:
JULlET'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:

Asaf het besef dat dit byna onmoontlik is om ware geregtigheid onder die onvolmaakte heerskappy van mense te vind (Psalm 146:3, 4; Spreuke 17:23).
(Psalm 146:3, 4; Proverbs 17:23) So rather than squander his precious time, energy, and resources trying to do away with all the wickedness around him, he focused on his relationship with God.

“Byna twee keer die gewone hoeveelheid wat ingeasem word, het in ’n roker se bloedstroom beland”, sê ’n verslag van die New York Times.
“Nearly twice the usual amount inhaled got into a smoker’s bloodstream,” says a New York Times report.

Na byna ’n dekade van sendingaktiwiteit het die getal Koninkryksverkondigers in Japan die eenduisend-kerf bereik.
It took almost a decade of missionary effort for the number of Kingdom publishers in Japan to reach the one thousand mark.

Gedurende sy loopbaan het die Concorde byna viermiljoen passasiers vervoer—nie juis baie mense nie as jy dink dat die wêreld se vloot Boeing 747’s binne net ’n paar weke soveel passasiers vervoer.
During its career, the Concorde transported nearly four million passengers —not really such a large number of people when one considers that the world’s fleet of Boeing 747’s transports that many in just a few weeks.

Een van die byna voltooide huise in San Sebastien de los Reyes
One of the nearly completed homes in San Sebastián de los Reyes

Dit is te begrype, aangesien die Metro elke dag gemiddeld negemiljoen passasiers vervoer, wat byna dubbel die bevolking van Finland is.
Understandably so, since every day it carries an average of nine million passengers, nearly twice the population of Finland.