Example sentences of "[noun sg] almost [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 2 | I feel the brunt of unwarranted anti-dog prejudice almost every day . |
| 3 | It is really in my mind almost a repeat of the situation we found ourselves in , in the Sudbury Western bypass some year or two ago , which strayed into Essex onto which the Essex County Council raised objection , er , one can not build a road in an adjoining County without the consent in law of the County Highway Authority on whose ground you trespass , it 's almost as simple as that and in this case with Norfolk standing presumably indicating their intention to oppose the construction for a day , we have something of a static bar situation unless we can reach agreement . |
| 4 | In most countries complicated tax laws make the use of outside advice and assistance almost a necessity . |
| 5 | He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident . |
| 6 | Sweetheart nor Buddie had spoken to him since he was called down from his room almost an hour ago . |
| 7 | But there was still a terrified child 's face on a body almost a woman 's . |
| 8 | The Church remained a supernatural fortress set against the world , its walls manned night and day by the committed , its lonely leader almost an oracle of heavenly wisdom . |
| 9 | It was better this way ; somehow she would manage to see Dana before Roman did , and then she would leave and take up her life as it had been before she had met Roman almost a week ago . |
| 10 | Wringe has shown how , traditionally , any conflict of notional ‘ rights ’ , as might arise , for example , between a pupil 's freedom of expression in classroom discourse and a teacher 's authority to control a lesson and behaviour during it , is irreconcilable and tends to be weighed in favour of the teacher almost every time . |
| 11 | And — an important factor this , in view of the way that we found some commercial lenders now tend to make repetitive and cumulative borrowing almost an end in itself , rather than simply the means of funding one desired purchase — the union has no interest in persuading its members to borrow . |
| 12 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 13 | Wilson , speaking at an Annual Conference almost a quarter of a century later summarised the experience of 1887–1894. " 1887 was a fairly good year . |
| 14 | Q : You had been in the business almost a decade before you appeared in a blockbuster . |
| 15 | He tried to compose himself and go over in his mind the details of what had taken place almost a month before . |
| 16 | Isfield itself seems to have shifted from its old site , up near the parish church , to a new site almost a quarter of a mile south-eastwards ; the moated manor near the church was abandoned and replaced by a new separate dwelling . |
| 17 | This village , situated 700m above sea-level , seems to have some kind of festival almost every weekend . |
| 18 | Quite involuntarily Lisa gasped , the sound almost a cry of anguish . |
| 19 | And I walked past the cathedral almost every day for three years . ’ |
| 20 | There remains here a certain sense of uneasiness in the face of the " desert " of contemporary culture which reaches back to Dyson 's account of the " younger " universities published in Critical Quarterly almost a decade earlier . |
| 21 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 22 | Mr John Bond , Lord Lane 's clerk , said Mr Mahoney was in court almost every day . |
| 23 | Throughout King James 's reign Andrewes preached before him and the Court almost every year at the great festivals of Christmas , Easter and Whitsun . |
| 24 | Christ , he really can smite the ball almost the length of the pitch , marvelled Perdita . |
| 25 | Last night almost a disaster , he wrote . |
| 26 | It is a popular place for watersports and seems to host colourful regattas on the water almost every week . |
| 27 | I speak to her on the phone almost every day and she 's really important to me . ’ |
| 28 | This expedition began this morning almost an hour later than I had planned , despite my having completed my packing and loaded the ford with all necessary items well before eight o'clock . |
| 29 | This season , I have attended a National League game almost every weekend , district matches , the international trial , even a women 's game . |
| 30 | On top of that , regulators are changing the rules of the game almost every week : in the latest move , on January 23rd , America decided to relax its rules on the foreign ownership of its airlines . |