Example sentences of "almost [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of bilirubin levels in the patients studied in this way encompassed almost the entire range of the control and oxygen treated groups . |
| 2 | Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence . |
| 3 | In 1051 almost the entire Godwin family was exiled , and Edward sent Ealdred with troops to intercept Earl Harold Godwinsson [ q.v. ] as he fled , but , according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , ‘ they could not or would not . ’ |
| 4 | One of his more lasting memorials is the Hattersley domestic loom , which since he introduced it into the islands in 1920 has produced almost the entire output of Harris tweed . |
| 5 | Harmony based on notes a perfect fourth apart ( ‘ quartal harmony ’ ) has been used by composers for almost the entire century , as a means of escaping from the old harmony based on thirds , with its complex systematization and expansion into the chromatic field . |
| 6 | But the London and East Midlands electricity boards are involved in field trials using frequencies that cover almost the entire spectrum available for mains signalling . |
| 7 | Again , the same cell ( in halved note-values , i.e. ) comprises almost the entire development section of the first movement of the ‘ Pastoral ’ Symphony , being repeated seventy-two times at one point , with hardly a break ( Example 1(b) , below ) . |
| 8 | The membership of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1939 never exceeded 54 countries , whereas some 160 nation states , covering almost the entire globe , are members of the present United Nations , and the numbers are still increasing as new nations arise out of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Ironically the adjoining mills , which for more than a century provided employment for almost the entire village and sup-plemented the picture now provided by the museum , were abruptly shut down in 1988 : bought up by a large firm , the premises were paid an afternoon visit by a director who announced imminent closure and drove off . |
| 10 | The Voluntary Fire Brigade of Kuala Kedah was formed in 1976 after a tragic fire which destroyed almost the entire village , burning down 800 houses and making more than 5,000 people homeless . |
| 11 | Painted directly upon the wall , it takes up almost the entire pub . |
| 12 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 13 | Almost the entire journey was through the plain , now covered in dense fog . |
| 14 | ‘ What you 're telling me , Tallboy , ’ said the Superintendent with practised distaste , ‘ is that the sum total of knowledge gleaned by almost the entire Medewich police force , continuously engaged over the last ten days comes to this : Paul Gray was murdered on Thursday or Friday July first or second , somewhere between Markham cum Cumbermound and Medewich , by persons unknown , at a time not yet established , at a place not yet identified , for an as yet undiscovered reason . |
| 15 | With no barnacles or mussels to be seen , almost the entire dog-whelk population on Cape Enrage ( New Brunswick , Canada ) was feeding on young edible winkles Littorina littorea in November 1981 ( Crothers , 1983a ) . |
| 16 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 17 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 18 | Evidence from satellite photos , refugees and dissident groups reveals that almost the entire flow of the Euphrates has been diverted into a 560-kilometre drainage canal , known as the Third River , recently connected to the sea . |
| 19 | Almost the entire deck of cards — sixty-six of them — were spread out on the floor before the fire . |
| 20 | This means that , whereas previously about fifty per cent of a museum 's budget would go on staff costs , next year almost the entire budget — over ninety per cent — will go on wages and staff costs . |
| 21 | During the three winter months , almost the entire squadron changed — well-known faces gradually disappearing and being replaced by new ones . |
| 22 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 23 | was indeed limited to a broad zone between Yorkshire and Dorset , and was primarily concerned with the removal of the traditional open or common fields and their replacement by the enclosed fields which cover almost the entire area today . |
| 24 | If that standard was implemented in the city we would be able to designate almost the entire area of north Belfast , ’ he claimed . |
| 25 | It was time to say dasvadanya ( goodbye ) to almost the entire carriage : the old man with a chest full of medals from the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis ; the young pianist visiting her estranged father in Riga and , of course , the gentle engineer with whom I had shared so much food and time . |
| 26 | But almost the entire contents are going on sale at Sotheby 's next month . |
| 27 | He had been Dean of Chichester since 1567 , during which time he had succeeded in alienating almost the entire chapter by his forthright attacks on venality , pluralism and spiritual laxity . |
| 28 | Boswell spent an energetic time on Raasay ; he walked almost the entire island and had his dance on top of Dun Can . |
| 29 | Its highlights were the famous ‘ Vitruvian Man ’ and studies for the Battle of Anghiari , and almost the entire corpus of studies connected with this lost decoration is assembled for the exhibition . |
| 30 | Initially , almost the entire focus of the budget was upon matters of resource allocation . |