Example sentences of "[adj] almost the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 2 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 3 | In 1051 almost the entire Godwin family was exiled , and Edward sent Ealdred with troops to intercept Earl Harold Godwinsson [ q.v. ] as he fled , but , according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , ‘ they could not or would not . ’ |
| 4 | New transmitters in Sutton Coldfield ( 1949 ) , Holme Moss , near Huddersfield ( 1951 ) , Kirk O'Shotts ( 1952 ) and Wenvoe soon extended the service to a potential 36 million , and by 1956 almost the whole population was included . |
| 5 | He had been Dean of Chichester since 1567 , during which time he had succeeded in alienating almost the entire chapter by his forthright attacks on venality , pluralism and spiritual laxity . |