Example sentences of "[vb pp] almost to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formerly plentiful on antarctic fringe and peripheral southern islands , they were hunted almost to extinction by commercial sealers during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 2 | The danger with trying to shoehorn the IRA into this category is that the criminal justice system has had to be stretched almost to breaking point to accommodate them — Diplock courts , the abolition of the right of silence , rigged inquests , detention without trial , and so on . |
| 3 | During the 19th century Southern Ocean stocks of fur seals and elephant seals were similarly reduced almost to extinction . |
| 4 | Beside her Meg Dennison 's prettiness was diminished almost to insipidity and Hilary Robarts 's strong-coloured cotton looked tawdry . |
| 5 | He 'd originally joined the service after his mother had been attacked and beaten almost to death in 1950 . |