Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 2 | It was almost a relief to be being attacked on this particular issue , because there were other far more personal ones to be dreaded . |
| 3 | I think it was almost a relief to him — after all this time . ’ |
| 4 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |
| 5 | Reading climbing magazines can be disheartening — almost a disincentive to going climbing , in fact ! |
| 6 | Minkowski worked in a vigorous school of mathematicians whose traditions stretched back almost a century to Carl Gauss . |
| 7 | The pound fell almost a pfennig to 2.7880 German marks yesterday — just one pfennig above its floor in the ERM — sparking fears of new increases in interest rates . |
| 8 | The major setback to profits came in Sears ' footwear division , about 40 per cent of total profits , where the trading surplus fell by almost a quarter to £31.6m . |
| 9 | Some were the direct result of campaigning by the Railway Development Society and the list is almost a tribute to it . |
| 10 | I talked to Whittaker almost a year to the day after Nelson Mandela had been released from his Cape prison . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 12 | Now , almost a year to the day later the show will finally go ahead at the Frank Matcham designed theatre . |
| 13 | That it made both Britten 's reputation and , at one stroke , recreated opera in English , a lost cause since the days of Purcell , is today almost a hedge to our seeing it clearly . |
| 14 | It seems almost a pity to subject these lively fancies to the stern test of verisimilitude , but I feel constrained to point out three facts . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a charming village — almost a temple to wine . ’ |
| 16 | Thereafter he became almost a father to me . |
| 17 | The third and final category is almost a superordinate to the other two in that it asks how all the changes implied in the first two aspects are being handled . |
| 18 | It 's almost a blessing to be bashed about . |
| 19 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But he gave an account of having grown up being looked after by black servants because both his parents worked , and he claimed that , after they had separated , a black housekeeper named Evelyn became almost a mother-figure to him . |
| 22 | That sounds almost a lifetime to me at the moment ! ’ she wailed , waving her hands distractedly in the air . |