Example sentences of "almost all [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be alone almost all day with her . ’ |
| 2 | Yet we saw in Chapter 1 that plants are the source of almost all life on Earth ; they alone can create the organic molecules which the animals consume . |
| 3 | From 1946 to 1950 almost all suburbanization by addition ( 89% of the 2126 dwellings built ) took place through the construction of very high-quality estates of semis by the local authority . |
| 4 | At present , each student has a subscription paid automatically to student associations where they exist , and they almost all affiliate in turn to the National Union of Students . |
| 5 | At present , each student has a subscription paid automatically to student associations where they exist , and the associations almost all affiliate in turn to the National Union of Students . |
| 6 | This was pleasant for the small landowners , who could move on to Virginia and resume tobacco growing there , but less prosperous white men in the West Indies lost almost all hope of working up the scale to become modest farmers on their own land . |
| 7 | Logically there should be a third such site at Ewell but modern development has blotted out almost all hope of proof ; chance finds , however , suggest a settlement ( fig. 7.6 ) of some 70 acres spreading along Stane Street . |
| 8 | In that period of decentralized feudalism , one clan ( the Tokugawa ) usurped the authority of the Emperor and ruled over other clans within a structure which prohibited almost all contact with the outside world . |
| 9 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 10 | Like other elements of the left-wing movement , however , activists in this sphere were subjected to extensive government oppression , which prevented almost all activity until 1918 and hampered it severely from the late 1920s . |
| 11 | Subsequently the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act brought almost all development under control by making it subject to planning permission . |
| 12 | ‘ The heaven appeared almost all night as if it were burning ’ — AD 1098 . |
| 13 | We know there was a dedication in 1136 by Bishop John , and another in 1197 by Bishop Jocelyn , but almost all evidence for those buildings was lost in a series of further campaigns in the course of the 13th century . |
| 14 | Some of the worst affected cases lose almost all power of speech except for odd words such as ‘ Lineker ’ , ‘ Reid ’ , ‘ Bracewell ’ , ‘ Steven ’ and ‘ Gray ’ . |
| 15 | Not many years ago , it seemed that almost all readability research , and almost all research in linguistics confined itself to the analysis of units no larger than a sentence . |
| 16 | The furniture was almost all antique of the period , though on one wall , at a corridor 's end , a Louis-Quinze tapestry hung above an eighteenth-century pew . |