Example sentences of "almost to [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I got clear of them I went down almost to sea level and there were two holes in the water about where my two would have gone in . |
2 | It is a switchback journey with many ups and downs and one particularly steep descent almost to sea level where Loch Nedd bites deeply into the coastline . |
3 | The danger with trying to shoehorn the IRA into this category is that the criminal justice system has had to be stretched almost to breaking point to accommodate them — Diplock courts , the abolition of the right of silence , rigged inquests , detention without trial , and so on . |
4 | Layering suspense element upon suspense element , the episode builds up tension almost to breaking point as audiences ponder the big question : ‘ What lives in that city ? ’ |
5 | So intense was the pain in his neck , flexed almost to breaking point , that he almost forgot the wound in his chest . |
6 | Logical reasoning and decoding both got worse by the end of three days , and significantly recovered , almost to baseline levels , when 4 hours sleep a night was allowed . |