Example sentences of "almost a [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost a shy sort of laugh , Carrie thought , though it could n't be . |
| 2 | sending tapes to the A&R departments is almost a total waste of time . |
| 3 | While their confrontations are now almost a ritual mixture of banter and cross-examination , they did produce the highlight of the meeting . |
| 4 | It was with almost a certain sense of relief that Delvert returned to his regiment . |
| 5 | The whole thing was delightful , almost a perfect work of art , yet small enough to enclose in the palm of his hand . |
| 6 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 7 | It would have to be a fast one , and expensive — offhand , Rincewind could n't think of any horse-dealer he knew who was rich enough to give change out of almost a whole ounce of gold . |
| 8 | The sense of excitement that Ruth would have had might have changed a wee bit to almost a little bit of fear . |
| 9 | The venue only serves drinks in plastic glasses , but almost a full pint of beer hit Vega on the head . |
| 10 | The venue only serves drinks in plastic glasses , but almost a full pint of beer hit Vega on the head . |
| 11 | More recently , another French writer , Roland Barthes , has referred to the " transparency of classical writing , and has postulated a mode of " writing at degree zero " , which , " initiated by Camus 's Outsider , achieves a style of absence which is almost an ideal absence of style " . |