Example sentences of "almost to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I developed what amounted almost to a fetish about toasters . |
| 2 | Gritting her teeth against the acid flow of retorts , Fran hurried on , quickening her pace almost to a run in an attempt to get away , but he just drove along beside her . |
| 3 | In the first week a German dairy was pillaged , two Germans were battered and an Austrian student was surrounded by a hostile mob , whilst traffic came almost to a standstill . |
| 4 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 5 | Fishing effort in the North Sea which had been slowly increasing as engines and gear were developed , came almost to a standstill during the war and , in consequence , the sea-bird populations flourished as fish stocks increased . |
| 6 | I see it happen but wait , hoping that as usual she will jump out from it , but it just gets worse and she slows almost to a stop . |
| 7 | None the less these had been sufficient to bring the war almost to a stop . |
| 8 | The two of them had slowed almost to a stop , and the other delegates were streaming past them towards the relaxation of the Seraglio . |
| 9 | Crisp had slowed almost to a trot , but still it seemed that he might hold on . |
| 10 | Almost to a man , barristers fought the scheme . |
| 11 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 12 | Cynical almost to a man , they expected the worst , and had come to write their stories of poor abused children , evil parents , and the things that ‘ incomers ’ get up to in remote islands . |
| 13 | But instead of just getting rid of jobs , as a ‘ committed expansionist ’ , Thornton started work on plans to keep the unwanted staff , whom he described as ‘ almost to a man , dedicated , hard-working folk ’ . |
| 14 | Almost to a man they were against the new phenomenon of the movies and they made no effort to include them in their ‘ night-time ’ world . |
| 15 | Almost to a man that vast army turned and fled . |
| 16 | Almost to a man they were cut down . |
| 17 | For the professional soldiers of the Legion , this was the final blow , and when Generals Challe and Salan led a revolt , the 1er and 2ème Régiments Étrangers de Parachutistes joined it almost to a man . |
| 18 | Almost to a man and woman they are , as it happens , extremely sophisticated individuals , many with a long experience of political activity outside Parliament and several with long-held and well-thought-out anxieties about the course which events were taking in Europe . |
| 19 | The French machine-gunners fired until whole battalions were slaughtered , almost to a man . |
| 20 | Only when it has been chewed up almost to a liquid can the food pass through the rumen , and on through the gut . |
| 21 | An unusually cold winter in 1916/17 brought the city of Paris almost to a halt . |
| 22 | As they came back into the City , buses had to slow almost to a halt to safely make the turn into Winchester Street ; it was not only steep but also had a tricky camber . |
| 23 | If you get it right the engine will catch just as it slows almost to a halt and , to the accompaniment of a swirling grey cloud of oily smoke stage right , the hiccupping bass thumping will grow into the irregular loping lumpy grumble of a healthy Pratt 986 . |
| 24 | He slowed almost to a halt . |
| 25 | The prospect of losing the traditional source of their wealth and authority induced among many noblemen a reappraisal of their role which amounted almost to a crisis of identity . |
| 26 | N.W. the level had been driven 110 fathoms , and was almost to a sump sinking down from Taylor 's above . |
| 27 | The corpse of a zebra , under the camera 's necessarily impassive gaze ( some viewers are queasier ) , is reduced almost to a skeleton as skin and then flesh are progressively stripped away by the processes of nature . |
| 28 | But the long haul through the muddy roads slowed the horses ' progress almost to a walk , and it was not until after five in the evening that the vehicle finally came to a halt outside the George inn in Mountsorrel , a little place some distance before the larger town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch . |
| 29 | The eyes were bright blue and heavily mascaraed in navy and the woman wore a pink ribbon in loosely permed hair that was coloured almost to a shade of orange . |
| 30 | The technique also enables them to opt for a 4 ohms working impedance ( as opposed to the norm of 8 ohms ) in the knowledge that this figure is much more consistent than the nominal figure given for almost all other loudspeakers ( in one or two notable designs the impedance dips almost to a short-circuit at certain frequencies , making them un-usuable with many amplifiers ) . |