Example sentences of "almost to a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost to a man , barristers fought the scheme . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Almost to a man that vast army turned and fled . |
| 7 | Almost to a man they were cut down . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The French machine-gunners fired until whole battalions were slaughtered , almost to a man . |