Example sentences of "[ex0] was almost [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was almost no time of day when we could be together alone .
2 There was almost no one in the gallery , ’ Surkov growled .
3 There was almost no traffic on the roads , though it was only ten-thirty .
4 For some reason there was almost no one else there .
5 There was almost no money on course for the horse and the only serious cash , about £1,000 in a series of small bets , was placed in the Bradford area .
6 There was almost no escape from television .
7 I arranged for Jaggers to be his lawyer , but Jaggers warned me there was almost no hope of saving his life .
8 All such activities paid dividends in the sense that , until the second half of the seventies , there was almost no questioning of the Shah 's priorities or stability in the American press or congress .
9 In fact , by this stage , the state Department knew that there was almost no country prepared to accept the Shah .
10 At the beginning of the nineteenth century , there was almost no standardization in science or in technology .
11 There was almost a desperation about the way we 'd try and fill our recreational time with something worthwhile .
12 Staff got frazzled , speakers got angry and there was almost a fist fight between some of my colleagues and the lighting technicians .
13 A minute later , there was almost a repeat , Norbury crossing again but Dublin shooting over from five yards .
14 The late Tim Brookshaw , not famous for faint-heartedness , danced an eloquent jig on top of the last fence at Leicester to show how hard it was , and one day there was almost a jockeys ' strike at Plumpton .
15 There was almost a note of relief in their voices .
16 There was almost a tragedy in 1905 when a major fire broke out one night in the early hours of the morning while 44 boys in the boys ' dormitories were asleep .
17 And there was almost a mass brawl 10 minutes before the break after Mark Robson was axed by Gianfranco Parlato .
18 There was almost a collapse of the cryonic systems when the vaults were besieged by people demanding to reclaim parents and presidents .
19 There was almost a concern to avoid the problem of the British state .
20 There was almost a note of amusement in his voice now .
21 They could sense a difference in the days now , sometimes there was almost a rime of frost on the shady side of the woods , and the old pony 's cost was thickening ; in the mornings they went off to school .
22 But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs .
23 After a while , there was almost a telepathy between them .
24 A Coal Advisory Service expert examined Mr McCoubrey 's gravity feed boiler and discovered there was almost a complete blockage at the T-box where the boiler joined the vertical chimney .
25 Compared to the last major overhaul three years ago , there was almost a 90 per cent drop in ethylene dichloride discharge and around 80 per cent in vinyl chloride .
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