Example sentences of "almost the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But whereas in the early 1920s , cheapie production had constituted almost the entirety of British filmmaking , in the 1930s there existed a more ambitious production sector running in parallel .
2 Along almost the whole of one wall was trained a cultivated blackberry bush .
3 After the eruption , it was found that almost the whole of one side of the cone had disappeared , and it looked as if a giant bite had been taken out of it .
4 Throughout almost the whole of this period the industry depended on supplies eroded by the sea and cast up on shore .
5 And , beyond that , we ought to see that some of the latest European music is only ‘ fascistic ’ in ways that are almost the opposite of male triumpalism .
6 Being usurped in Rigby 's life by Duane was especially painful for Gedge because the two men were almost the antipathy of each other .
7 In 1940 the British Decca Company was asked by RAF Coastal Command if it could record frequencies up to 14000Hz , almost the limit of human hearing .
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