Example sentences of "almost [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 2 | A divorced father says he 's facing financial ruin after his maintenance payments for his children were increased from five pence a year to almost three and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 3 | In this backward , square or forward short leg position he held most of his 375 catches , a startlingly high average of almost one and a half catches per match . |
| 4 | In 1954 , mortality was highest among the infants born to the oldest mothers — 45 years old or older ( 122.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the same maternal age group ) : the rate was almost one and a half times higher than the mortality in the second highest risk group ( 85.9 ) on the other end of the reproductive period ( i.e. infants born to women under 17 years of age ) . |
| 5 | The opener , who hit 12 fours in an innings almost five and a half hours long , was eighth out and one of off-spinner Neil Smith 's six victims . |
| 6 | The opener , who hit 12 fours in an innings almost five and a half hours long , was eighth out and one of off-spinner Neil Smith 's six victims . |
| 7 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 8 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 9 | This trend continued in succeeding years so that during the three-quarters of a century between the first ( 1719 ) and the fifth ( 1795 ) official censuses , the Russian population of Siberia increased by almost two and a half times , from 169,000 adult males to 412,000 , at a time when the population of the empire as a whole less than doubled . |
| 10 | Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds . |
| 11 | In other words users of all types , from motor-cyclists to the owners of the heaviest vehicles , pay almost two and a half times as much in taxes as is spent on all road costs from building , maintenance and signs , right down to the provision of police , traffic wardens and even grass cutting and hedge-trimming of the verges . |