Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] almost as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 2 | Carson was putting the shift into Drive almost as the engine caught . |
| 3 | The imposing chancel is in fact almost as long as the nave , and has four wide steps to the altar . |
| 4 | When he woke he gazed up at Dot almost as though he knew her , yet she could n't be sure if he really saw her , for his eyes had a distant faraway look like a sailor in the Navy staring across the Pacific seas . |
| 5 | The US wish to rearm Germany in September 1950 had put the French policy of controlling Germany through European institutions at risk almost as soon as the Schuman Plan was launched . |