Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] almost [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 2 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 3 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 4 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 5 | Carol Clark had been missing for almost 40 hours before her body was found at Sharpness . |