Example sentences of "and almost [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , there was no intense Lockerbie-type investigation and almost no press interest . |
| 2 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 3 | Few mammals and almost no birds enjoy being handled , no matter how tame . |
| 4 | There is a short , square-ended choir and almost no transepts . |
| 5 | She had a longish , plain face with a straight nose and almost no eyebrows ; she must have plucked them away in order to repaint them in higher up . |
| 6 | There are few cars here , though lots of bicycles , very few dogs and almost no dog mess ( even the horse-drawn buggies for tourist joyrides have built-in pooper scoopers ) . |
| 7 | There were few formal induction procedures and almost no training . |
| 8 | And almost a decade ago its government asked scientists , including hydrologist Dr Ted Hollis from University College London , to predict the effects of damming the rivers upon the level and salinity of the lake , and hence upon the weeds and birds ; and to suggest ways of minimizing the impact of damming . |
| 9 | Q I have two little daughters , aged two and almost a year . |
| 10 | Single mothers and separated mothers were the next largest groups at around 20 per cent each and widows and lone fathers ( of whom two thirds are divorced or separated and almost a quarter widows ) are the smallest groups . |
| 11 | Together they provide about 60 per cent of the housing for single people and almost a quarter of all wheelchair access dwellings . |
| 12 | In 1969 , nearly one third of Spain 's freight and almost a quarter of Britain 's still went by rail . |
| 13 | The film 's musical score and song and dance numbers are surprisingly its weakest ingredient , though the shooting and editing of Earth Girls Are Easy is often highly original-especially the black and white dream sequence that 's a model of its kind and almost a music video in itself . |
| 14 | Mrs Browning gave an exclamation of astonishment — a great breathing-out and almost a groan that came with it — and Mr Browning simply stared at her in disbelief . |
| 15 | He believes the nature of the new tax , including 100 per cent benefits and almost a halving in the number of bills to be issued , will help collection . |
| 16 | Instead , a sleepy purring trill told her that the dozing house cat — it was the long-haired one , named after Bubastis , and almost a pet — had mistaken her clumsiness for a caress ; she had barely disturbed its sleep . |
| 17 | " You 've inherited half a house and almost a bride . |
| 18 | Its fourth issue devoted a page to analysis and views of the smaller , 21 July Vietnam demonstration half a page to strike reports from Manchester and London , two pages to a suppressed BBC script on racism , and almost a page to Malcolm X and an excerpt from American black power advocate Julius Lester 's Look Out Whitey . |
| 19 | exceed all the others in Europe for wholesome produce and a variety of Herbs are those at the Neat-Houses near Tuttle-fields , Westminster , which abound in Salads , early Cucumbers , Colliflowers , Melons , Winter Asparagus and almost every Herb fitting the Table ; and I think there is no where so good a school for a Kitchen Gardener as this place : tho' Battersea affords the largest natural Asparagus and the earliest Cabbages . |
| 20 | The medical journals still present a variety of possible remedies , many of which sound most desperate and bizarre missionaries report from China that they have been cured by having needles stuck into their bellies and arms , yet this is not thought too strange to mention … and almost every variety of chemical substance has been proposed at one time or another , all of which is a sure sign that our profession remains baffled by this disease . " |
| 21 | Now they number many millions drawn from almost every nation on earth , and almost every denomination too . |
| 22 | The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account . |
| 23 | Romania was not unique in cramming its citizens into overcrowded tenements which would have attracted the indignation of Dickens , but the process of urban deprivation was pushed much further because by the 1980s , the shortages of food , fuel and almost every kind of consumer good were worse even than in provincial Russia or small-town Poland . |
| 24 | Complicite 's use of movement and body language brilliantly illuminates the text , and almost every scene has a vitality that forces you to consider the play afresh . |
| 25 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 26 | And one of the things that we do need to look at is , that is almost every salesman that I 've ever measured and almost every bit of research I 've ever seen , suggested that every salesman in the world , spends at least a third of his time driving about in his car . |
| 27 | And almost every day she went for long walks on the moors with her dog , Keeper . |
| 28 | Officers continue to be assaulted , prisoners er continue to er commit suicide and almost every weekend there is tension in one part of the system or another . |
| 29 | ‘ And almost every night I 'm woken by the sound of Graham trying to scratch himself or asking me to scratch him . |
| 30 | And almost every budget item is politicised accordingly . |