Example sentences of "almost [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I estimate that once a future general practitioner enters medical school the nation ( NHS ) can write off almost £3m for training costs , salaries , and pension until his or her death . |
| 2 | A typical European family of four is thus being forced to pay almost £1,000 per year , or above £18 per week . |
| 3 | Brewery bosses say that every British couple bringing back the new full drink and tobacco allowance would save almost £1,000 in import duty . |
| 4 | At first their efforts were disorganized and almost anarchist in inspiration : the movement ‘ to the people ’ in 1874 virtually ignored the political sphere . |
| 5 | Indeed their protest against restrictions on the individual was almost anarchist in tone . |
| 6 | Not only is SmartDrive superfluous , it wastes almost 1Mb of RAM . |
| 7 | Now it 's almost hour by hour as it 's very difficult to know what morphine dose Ruth should be on . |
| 8 | Mr Ritblat said he and his fellow directors were showing their commitment to New British Land by investing almost £12million in cash into the new company , which he said would concentrate on the UK but also look for overseas opportunities provided by the creation of the Single European market . |
| 9 | Root hairs are almost in. in length . |
| 10 | On the last lap , we watched three cars coming towards the chequered flag almost side by side : Andretti , Depailler and Hunt . |
| 11 | upon the almost eyes of train travellers . |
| 12 | and the almost eyes of train travellers . |
| 13 | Smithers calculates that to finance a corporate-sector deficit of ¥40 trillion at the current high corporate-borrowing rate of 5% ( almost 4% after inflation ) would cost ¥2 trillion a year . |
| 14 | They raised almost £10,000 in aid of the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital . |
| 15 | The banking and finance sector has grown more than 20 times in real terms over the past 30 years so that it now accounts for almost 20% of GDP , compared with 5% in 1960 . |
| 16 | The county asked to borrow almost £46m for capital projects but had only been allowed to spend £11.64m on school buildings — a cut back of almost 50 per cent on last year 's spending . |
| 17 | Fixed and inventory investment together made up almost 13% of TFE in 1991 . |
| 18 | The guest list for Anne 's wedding , at Crathie Church , has varied almost day by day . |
| 19 | Our experience of people in that condition is that they are not in a steady state so , rightly , the prescription must be altered almost day by day according to the pain of the patient . |
| 20 | The company spent almost £500,000 on expansion last year , including the purchase of a 17,000 sq ft warehouse . |
| 21 | Almost midnight in fact . |
| 22 | Not only must you keep an almost minute by minute diary of what you are doing and why , but once you have accumulated all the information you must then analyse it . |
| 23 | The Public Sector Borrowing Requirement ( PSBR ) is expected to be almost 6% of GDP in 1992/93 . |
| 24 | The mine was opened in 1864 and closed in 1882 , by which time the company had mined almost £40,000-worth of ore , which at today 's prices is perhaps the equivalent of £16 million . |
| 25 | Imports from coastal super-quarries ( in Scotland and Northern Europe ) will supply almost 30% of consumption by 2011 . |
| 26 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the South Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply met from primary land sources will decline from 65% to about 45% over the period from 1991 to 2011 ( although requiring an absolute increase of up to 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , coastal super quarries are anticipated to supply almost 30% of demand during the last five years of this period . |
| 27 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the South Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply met from primary land sources will decline from 65% to about 45% over the period from 1991 to 2011 ( although requiring an absolute increase of up to 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , coastal super quarries are anticipated to supply almost 30% of demand during the last five years of this period . |
| 28 | TENNIS WORLD 'S ABC figures for the first six months of the year will show an increase in sales of almost 30% in spite of the deep UK recession . |
| 29 | I noted , and we 've already had the flavour of it , in to some respect today , that initially you had almost unanimity of support from the District Councils er York City have changed their view erm and equally Hambledon are very luke warm , if I put it no more than that , er on the idea of a new settlement in the sense that they probably support the principle of the new settlement , but not in Hambledon . |
| 30 | ( Detroit spends almost $1,000 per pupil a year , while the wealthy suburb of Bloomfield Hills spends almost twice that . ) |