Example sentences of "to almost [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State subsidy amounted to almost £1.1bn in the 12 months to 31 March , up from £700m the previous year . |
| 2 | This walk climbs to almost 1,000′ on the moorland of Parc Mawr . |
| 3 | From importing 10% of demand in 1978 the level of imports increased to almost 30% in 1983 . |
| 4 | Robert Moleyns , Lord Hungerford , captured at Castillon in 1453 , was valued for ransom at £6,000 , a sum inflated to almost £10,000 by the cost of his maintenance while a prisoner till his release in 1459 and by the charges of the merchants who negotiated the exchange of the money . |
| 5 | The improvement could allow some repayment of its long-term debt which has grown from £12.7m in 1986 to almost $69m at the end of last year . |
| 6 | It will do little to end the real problem , that of a heavily protected EC market in which surplus production is encouraged by vast subsidies , which amount to almost 60% of the EC budget . |
| 7 | The figure of £2.6 million is equal to almost £300,000 per Tory MP in Scotland . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , we have nearly 2,000 CTC members in Scotland and assuming an average of around £20 per member , this amounts to almost £40,000 of income , of which our request for £750 seems modest in the extreme , particularly since we now pay the subscriptions I mentioned . |
| 9 | This total was boosted to almost £200 by staff at the town 's Asda store where teachers shopped for goods to send to the Russian town . |