nowhere near vs rarely

nowhere near

adv
  • Not by a large margin, not nearly, not at all. 

rarely

adv
  • Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often. 

  • To a rare degree; very. 

  • Unusually well; excellently. 

How often have the words nowhere near and rarely occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )