Example sentences of "almost a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are almost a thousand set of bones in all . |
| 2 | Soon after midday Tom Poole and his brother Richard decided to take their interesting visitors on a short walk to the farmhouse called Marshmills in Over Stowey , home of a large tribe of Poole cousins who were almost a second family to Tom and Richard : among them were Penelope Poole , ‘ a beautiful , dark-eyed girl ’ who would never return Tom Poole 's love for her ( he died unmarried ) , and John Poole , an Oxford fellow and later the rector of Enmore , who was Tom Poole 's friend and companion from childhood . |
| 3 | Almost a shy sort of laugh , Carrie thought , though it could n't be . |
| 4 | Repairs would have been difficult , if not pointless , in the depths of winter , so that almost a close season for carts and wagons might have been observed , with pedestrians and pack-animals being the only travellers . |
| 5 | By the end of 1981 , she seemed almost a Prime Minister at bay . |
| 6 | sending tapes to the A&R departments is almost a total waste of time . |
| 7 | While their confrontations are now almost a ritual mixture of banter and cross-examination , they did produce the highlight of the meeting . |
| 8 | It was with almost a certain sense of relief that Delvert returned to his regiment . |
| 9 | By the late 1920s the activities of birth control groups ensured that the matter was openly discussed , the matter being almost a compulsory subject for discussion in the local meetings of the Women 's Section of the Labour Party . |
| 10 | The whole thing was delightful , almost a perfect work of art , yet small enough to enclose in the palm of his hand . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hot air , or ‘ heat ’ guns are almost a disposable tool amongst tradesmen who carry out a lot of paint stripping and decoration . |
| 14 | The sense of excitement that Ruth would have had might have changed a wee bit to almost a little bit of fear . |
| 15 | There was a fractional gap in time in which she went blind and deaf and limp , a second that was almost a miniature swoon in essence , but so infinitesimal that she was n't even aware of the fleeting relief , the madness in her again instantly , the craving , unbearably heightened by this first knowledge of his nakedness in contact with hers . |
| 16 | The venue only serves drinks in plastic glasses , but almost a full pint of beer hit Vega on the head . |
| 17 | The venue only serves drinks in plastic glasses , but almost a full pint of beer hit Vega on the head . |
| 18 | Almost an entire generation of Titfords in Frome was increasingly destitute from the 1780s onwards ; in a town which had depended heavily upon the wool industry for its prosperity for so long , the innate conservatism of the local clothiers left them unable to respond to changing times and new technology . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | Industrial battles of this sort were almost an everyday event in Griffith 's America but here the bloody scenes are staged not as part of a labour or management film but as part of a vast , elaborate , confused , perhaps ultimately nonsensical and certainly eccentric plea for tolerance . |
| 21 | The American painter Abraham Walkowitz was almost an exact contemporary of Max Beckmann , though the two were very different kinds of artists indeed . |
| 22 | It was almost an exact drawing of Therese . |