Example sentences of "for almost [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gullholm had been her entire world for almost a fortnight , except for the trip to the nursing home . |
| 2 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 3 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 4 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 5 | FOR almost a quarter of a century we have been keeping records of farm fatalities . |
| 6 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 7 | Ken appreciated it and for almost a quarter of a century afterwards they would be close friends . |
| 8 | For example , in ascertaining the image of a book on a distant plane , he adopted a procedure familiar to artists for almost a century . |
| 9 | It all stemmed from the fact that England had tried for almost a century to conquer Scotland — and failed . |
| 10 | US Budweiser and the firm in Ceske Budejovice have been at loggerheads for almost a century , exchanging writs over the use of the Budweiser name . |
| 11 | It was published regularly for almost a century and appeared in twelve editions and seven languages . |
| 12 | In the following decades Cook 's eye-catching posters and brochure covers set the travel industry 's style for selling dreams , as did his first travel magazine The Excursionist which gave details of Cook 's tours and was published regularly in worldwide editions for almost a century . |
| 13 | the opera by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli ( 1752–1837 ) , Giulietta e Romeo , first performed at La Scala , Milan , in 1796 , and which remained popular all over the continent for almost a century . |
| 14 | SO Lennox Lewis has been crowned this country 's first heavyweight champion for almost a century . |
| 15 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 16 | There appeared to be a determinate , stable , inverse relationship between the rate of change of money wages and the unemployment rate which had continued to hold good for almost a century . |
| 17 | Their trip , which took 38 hours instead of the normal 22 , coincided with 60ft waves and the worst North Sea gales for almost a century . |
| 18 | Experimental phonetics has been an important part of phonetics for almost a century , and experimental work in phonetics laboratories has produced many important discoveries about how speech is produced and perceived . |
| 19 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 20 | Do you realise I have n't walked on grass for almost a year ? |
| 21 | Suzy had even let Joey live with Seth for almost a year . |
| 22 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 23 | D'Annuzio led a group of men to occupy Fiume for the Italians , lording over the city for almost a year before being ousted by the wartime Allies . |
| 24 | FOR ALMOST a year , the world-famous Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto had a murderer loose in its cardiac wards . |
| 25 | A couple of days , he 'd said , but he ended up staying in the Commercial Hotel for almost a year . |
| 26 | It 's been ‘ 88 for almost a year . |
| 27 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 28 | After mulling over the idea for almost a year , Mr Chambers made the decision to leave Greenfield Human Resources — the agency he joined as a trainee in 1956 and left as a director — and set up on his own . |
| 29 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 30 | Unfortunately at this point Martin Fleischmann entered hospital for a serious operation which interrupted the project for almost a year . |