Example sentences of "almost [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept almost entirely the statement of faith except for one phrase accepting that God is love I have difficulty in reconciling he who created the universe , who is love , with the tempest , the earthquake the great white shark and the crocodile . |
| 2 | Most importantly , this was almost entirely the result of immigration , first from the European countries and , following the First World War , from southern USA . |
| 3 | The Home Secretary pointed out in the debate on the Metropolitan police that Sir Peter Imbert had said that the map of deprivation matched almost exactly the map of crime in London . |
| 4 | But , as we all know , beauty is only skin deep — it is more likely that the new breeds were favoured because they grew faster and to almost twice the size of bronze strains . |
| 5 | The survey also showed that full-time blue-collar workers lost 10 days a year in both manufacturing and services , almost twice the amount of time lost by white-collar workers in manufacturing with five days and in services with six days . |
| 6 | Others reflect what was almost certainly the intention of Parliament , as that an Act applies only to the United Kingdom unless the contrary is expressed . |
| 7 | It was almost certainly the growth of dissatisfaction with this arrangement in the other republics and provinces that led to the abandonment of the retention ratio system at the end of 1985 . |