Sentence:  Being somewhat delicate in health , at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe , for which he at once developed a passion , so that he spent <WSD>nearly</WSD> all of the following ten years abroad , at first in Italy , then in Greece , Egypt , Asia Minor , and Palestine . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but