1. There were nigh on 40 people there.

2. The end of the world is nigh!

3. He was nigh upon 20 miles.

4. Winter was drawing nigh.

5. I had to pay nigh on forty pounds for it.

6. They've lived in that house for nigh on 30 years.

7. I just found it really hard, y'know. Nigh impossible.

8. The lieutenant was right: it would be nigh impossible to make everyone account for their movements.

8. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

9. And everybody knew it was mighty nigh impossible to quit them.

10. Today the man carrying the placard warning that the end is nigh may well be wearing a white laboratory coat.

11. Gone are the days of spending frantically because the end of the financial year was nigh.

12. If the system makes too early a commitment on segmentation, recovery will be well nigh impossible. 4.2.2.3.

13. But knowing is not doing, and many people find it well nigh impossible to kick the habit.

14. Undermanning can make the task nigh impossible on some estates; on the others the approach is far too casual.

15. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. Oscar Wilde 

16. I crossed the garden, and went into the lime-walk; the nighest way to the servants' hall took me through the shrubbery and past the dry well.