Example sentences of "almost [verb] the [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the C C P had almost completed the destruction of feudalism in the countryside in the north of China . |
| 2 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 3 | Willie almost dropped the clod of earth he was holding . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , he could almost smell the stench of fear : the house was too quiet . |
| 5 | There was silence for a moment , a silence so deep and intense that she could hear her own heart beating , almost hear the flow of blood rushing through her veins . |
| 6 | Yet the irony was that there was no support in Cabinet for the proposals and they had almost reached the point of rejection when the leak took place . |
| 7 | Striving for influence almost submerged the dialectic of influence and agitation except for the one brief but massive burst of petitioning in 1814 on suppression of the international slave trade . |
| 8 | The Inquisitor 's voice , as picked up by the spy-fly , almost drowned the crackle of gunfire . |
| 9 | During Lloyd George 's premiership , the counterpoint of coalition almost drowned the theme of party , and many Unionists feared for the survival of politics as they knew it . |
| 10 | Fitzormonde was probably a brave man but Athelstan could almost taste the stench of fear which emanated from him . |
| 11 | The result is that there is no coherent and sustained statement of the classical Greek or Athenian case for democracy ; while the case against it has almost monopolized the attention of posterity . |
| 12 | On July 10 , 1990 , the government announced that as a result of its decision to withdraw subsidies " for commodities in ever-growing demand that can not be met by home production " it would ( i ) almost double the price of fuel ; ( ii ) increase the price of luxury goods , newspapers and books ; and ( iii ) double the price of mineral water . |
| 13 | TYPISTS rang up an average pay rise of 7.6 per cent last year — almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 14 | A survey has shown that pocket money has increased in the past year by almost double the rate of inflation . |