Example sentences of "[vb pp] almost [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Home Secretary pointed out in the debate on the Metropolitan police that Sir Peter Imbert had said that the map of deprivation matched almost exactly the map of crime in London .
2 She 'd thought almost exactly the same , reversing the relationship .
3 Although used almost interchangeably the words " exception " and " reservation " are , strictly , different mechanisms .
4 In most RMI contexts , this new structure has become almost universally a version of the clinical directorate model .
5 Watercolours — always an English passion — seem to have become almost entirely the preserve of elderly amateur or semi-professional artists .
6 Of the other contraceptive methods , the cap has remained almost exclusively a middle-class contraceptive , withdrawal predominantly a working-class practice , although now little used .
7 For I have so far lived almost wholly the outer life which is so distressing to think of and to endure .
8 A later test showed he had drunk almost twice the legal limit .
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