Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] almost [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers , whether on a large or small scale , faced new demands on their managerial abilities and technical skills almost every day — decisions and actions they usually had to make and take on their own . |
| 2 | In inflationary times almost every ageing person experiences some anxiety about how their finances will hold out , leading to severe economies over food , fuel , and replacement of clothing and household goods . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most Long-tailed Ducks are seen at sea or on tidal waters , but one or two are recorded on inland waters almost every year . |
| 5 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 6 | I looked down and saw a giant freshwater prawn almost a foot long . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The campaign of mass action organized by the ANC and its allies which began on June 16 [ see p. 38948 ] continued during July with demonstrations of differing sizes almost every day . |
| 9 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 10 | Why are the farmers in eastern England almost the only ones who choose to grow sugarbeet ? |
| 11 | He already had an armful of flowers , star-shaped clusters almost the same shade as the sky above . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This little drama — and other scenes like it — is played out method-acting style almost every day in this particular household . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I carried on with the Debenham players getting small parts almost every year in the pantomimes , they were n't major acting roles but for a nine , ten , eleven year old child they sufficed . |
| 16 | I feel the brunt of unwarranted anti-dog prejudice almost every day . |
| 17 | The company does not object to moustaches , and in this promotional video almost every UPS worker seems to have one . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , those garrulous starlets who utter a quotable phrase almost every time they open their mouths are few and far between . |
| 19 | On the other hand : it is no obstacle to the sum stipulated being a genuine pre-estimate of damage , that the consequences of the breach are such as to make precise pre-estimation almost an impossibility . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | Iceland Frozen Foods — opening a new store almost every week — rang up a 19 per cent RISE to £24,200,000 |
| 23 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 24 | And I knew from experience that in the ten to fourteen days during wastage of muscle tissue prior to an operation , a patient should normally suffer intense pain almost every hour of every one of those days . |
| 25 | ( a ) The Senior Partner Almost every firm sees the need to have a figureheadand , because of the need to name partners on the notepaper , every firm will be perceived as having a senior partner , however democratic the instincts of its members . |