Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound of the water had become muted ; like background music , it receded from consciousness , becoming almost a part of the stillness and the silence . |
| 2 | But the relationship was extremely good , I think that you might say that for many years in my service , it was almost a case of the law abiding citizens in Ipswich coping with the wrongdoers . |
| 3 | Which was almost a relief after the agony of my abused foot . |
| 4 | They emerged gradually over a period of half a century , culminating in his book Two New Sciences , which was first published in 1638 , almost a century after the publication of Copernicus 's major work . |
| 5 | But almost a quarter of the childhood memories do express distinct feelings . |
| 6 | The Fr300,000,000 grant had covered almost a quarter of the venture 's costs . |
| 7 | Also standing is Green Mike Woodin who grabbed almost a quarter of the vote in last year 's council elections . |
| 8 | Almost a quarter of the world 's population — 1.2 billion people — were reckoned to be too poor to meet their most basic needs for food , clothing and shelter . |
| 9 | With barely 800 inhabitants , Little Walsingham comprised almost a quarter of the population and a clear two-fifths of the value of North Greenhoe hundred , Norfolk ( Table 2.9 ) : four men in the £100 class shared 30 per cent of the town 's wealth , and ten at £40 — £99 owned a further 35 per cent . |
| 10 | For labouring people and out-servants the average income per head is given as £4 10s ( £4.50 ) against an expenditure of £4. 12s ( £4.60 ) , while for cottagers and paupers , whom he considered to make up almost a quarter of the population , the respective figures are £2 and £2 5s ( £2.25 ) . |
| 11 | Even now , almost a decade into the project , we can not say that the monster does or does not exist . |
| 12 | In an era still almost a decade from the feasibility of spectacle and complex visual effects as substitutes for performance , the actors were the be-all and end-all of dramatic presentation . |
| 13 | There is probably as big , almost a call on the goal as they are in higher education . |
| 14 | The professor seemed not to realise that she was a servant , perhaps because she was so much with the Carsons as to seem almost a member of the family . |
| 15 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 16 | Almost a year since the end of the Gulf War , more and more of the British men and women who took part are asking for help in straightening out their lives . |
| 17 | I talked to Whittaker almost a year to the day after Nelson Mandela had been released from his Cape prison . |
| 18 | Now , almost a year to the day later the show will finally go ahead at the Frank Matcham designed theatre . |
| 19 | The storm clouds gathering over Leeds City broke almost a year after the end of the First World War . |
| 20 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 21 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 22 | All three excuses , almost a creed for the nomenklatura , contain some truth . |
| 23 | The ‘ key informant ’ will often be the same individual as made possible the researcher 's access to the group , and may become almost a partner in the research . |
| 24 | By 15 October 1796 , almost a month after the birth of his son David Hartley Coleridge , he had at last reached a decision . |
| 25 | It was a gloomy place , almost a replica of the film set for Brief Encounter . |
| 26 | THE White House is still trying desperately to live down the story of US President Bill Clinton 's 200 dollar haircut — almost a week after the trim aboard Air Force One closed down part of Los Angeles airport . |
| 27 | Hand-cutting of hay by scythe is almost a thing of the past , as people either have their own tractor-driven machines or can hire someone to do the job . |
| 28 | Private rooms became almost a thing of the past , for closets went out of fashion ; bedrooms , which had formerly existed on all floors , went upstairs , but , although their dressing-rooms were often furnished as boudoirs , these were out-of-bounds from after breakfast , except in times of illness . |
| 29 | On the positive side , steam traction became almost a thing of the past ; by the end of 1966 , 96 per cent of total coaching train miles were operated by diesel or electric trains . |
| 30 | but , I ca n't see him authorising bank holiday workings and so bank holiday exhibitions are almost a thing of the past . |