We received warning that the enemy were getting nearer.

我们事先得到敌人正在逼近的警报。

《新英汉大辞典》

It is getting nearer to Christmas time.

圣诞节就快到了。

youdao

We were getting nearer to a long, punishing hill now and it would be the test.

我们离那座又远又累人的山越来越近，这真是一种考验。

youdao

"I think the two sides are getting much nearer to each other than it used to be several weeks or several months ago,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

So far this has been tried only in animals, but the results suggest that getting nearer the nerve fibres activates them more precisely.

ECONOMIST: Cochlear implants

But the day is getting nearer.

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But the author of the Business Insider post, Nicholas Carlson, rightly asserts in the very post upon which this house of cards is built that while a Facebook IPO is clearly getting nearer, it is doubtful it will come as soon as rumor mill suggests.

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