We had virtually finished our book on e-mail and other virtual writing before we gave much thought to the origins of the word virtual.
Debussy had virtually finished his score by the time Dukas began work on his.
One reason is the propaganda success of the intifada, virtually finished on the West Bank but still playing big in daily television reruns.
From the House of the Dead was virtually finished when Janáček died.
By the time his plane landed, he had virtually finished it.
This Adagio and a four-minute section intended to follow it were virtually finished when the composer died in 1911.
We have virtually finished the mechanical work on it and the engine and chassis are in almost original condition.
It's becoming rather obvious that our concentration span is virtually finished.
I got the impression that it was virtually finished.
The first thirty meters of the tachyon-beam broadcast apparatus is virtually finished.