Example sentences of "almost to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Browndown Beach 0900 hours almost to the minute , and RFA Sir Percivale is dropping anchor 400 yards offshore . |
| 2 | Almost to the minute , the telephone rang . |
| 3 | Whether or not she bothered to rouse him , he knew that he would wake almost to the minute . |
| 4 | He had no doubt that , mentally , most of the group now waiting in the library to be interviewed were following his actions almost to the minute . |
| 5 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 6 | The cyclist knows , give or take the wind speed and direction , almost to the minute how long the journey will take . |
| 7 | In the film , which traces Pembroke 's family history back almost to the Reformation , she will be played by Anna Massey . |
| 8 | However , in France the infamous Festum Asinorum — the Ass ' Feast — during which a live ass was present at the Mass and the congregation brayed like the animal , survived almost to the Reformation despite efforts to stamp it out . |
| 9 | A small river runs into th sea at one side , but on the other there is a large expanse of grassland which runs down from the walls almost to the sea . |
| 10 | We had to walk right down almost to the sea at its low-tide limit before we could get across . |
| 11 | When the monsoon rains fill the villus , their waters reach almost to the jungle edge . |
| 12 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 13 | ‘ Almost to the day . ’ |
| 14 | For instance , it arrived in Cambridge in November 1967 : that can be dated almost to the day . |
| 15 | Civil War , sponsored by THE TIMES , opens in April , in Hull , where 350 years before , almost to the day , the first armed confrontation took place between the forces of King and Parliament . |
| 16 | ‘ A year , almost to the day , after the marriage . |
| 17 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 18 | It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent . |
| 19 | Nehru was also hounded by part of the press led by the Daily Express , almost to the day of his death . |
| 20 | ‘ The marriage lasted a year , almost to the day . |
| 21 | To the Editor of The Times , 27 December 1991 Sir , A year ago , almost to the day ( 18 December 1990 ) you published a letter in which I wrote : |
| 22 | They were killed almost to the man . |
| 23 | Then he bowed low , touching his forehead almost to the board . |
| 24 | The wheelbarrow had been stuck , almost to the axle , but when it came free I toppled with it . |
| 25 | The moment they stepped on to the moor itself their feet sank almost to the ankle . |
| 26 | Compared with the other blastoids in this book the food grooves are very long , extending almost to the base of the animal , and occupying much of its surface area . |
| 27 | His sleeves were rolled almost to the shoulder and the right one bore the three gold chevrons denoting his rank . |
| 28 | dropped its skirts of branch almost to the lawn , |
| 29 | This family is characterised by a large disk often covered with granules , spinelets or sometimes with thickened skin ; the bar shaped radial shields extending almost to the middle of the disk ; the papillae on the jaw usually spine like ; the arms may be branched or simple , covered with granules and distally with bands of minute hooks . |
| 30 | The radial shields are long and bar-like reaching almost to the middle of the disk . |