Example sentences of "almost [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former provides an involvement in the parish almost wholly at the level of observation , normally in the company of the incumbent . |
| 2 | The breadth of some of these banks is so great that they can not be attributed to marine erosion at low sea levels corresponding with glacial periods : the Nazareth bank near the Maldive Islands is about 350 km ( 220 miles ) long and reaches a maximum breadth of about 100 km ( 60 miles ) and lies almost uniformly at a depth of about 60 m ( 200 ft ) . |
| 3 | This change took place almost entirely at the expense of ‘ sole principal ’ practices . |
| 4 | A company launched on the stock market almost exactly at the top of the market in the summer of 1987 — and which has gone steadily down ever since , as the graph illustrates . |
| 5 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |
| 6 | One man further down the street was a Somerset-born commercial traveller for a draper — very much like Benjamin 's father , Ben the Outrider — and Henry Budeler at no. 13a , assistant to a law stationer , had been born in Frome almost exactly at the time when Ben , senior , was leaving that town for London . |
| 7 | This , no doubt , was the reason that Nenna 's thoughts , whenever she was alone , took the form of a kind of perpetual magistrates ' hearing , in which her own version of her marriage was shown as ridiculously simple and demonstrably right , and then , almost exactly at the same time , as incontrovertibly wrong . |
| 8 | Buy them there , often at half price , and almost always at a discount . |
| 9 | Bach 's music is almost always at the pulse of a heartbeat . |
| 10 | ‘ If it was , the man could hardly have moved , and would have been almost totally at the mercy of Silk . ’ |
| 11 | Even , well , almost even at the time when this last translation was doing , but certainly the time the bible was written . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , when they returned home and the car was idling almost silently at the roadside . |
| 13 | SCOTVEC is now about half way through the Advanced Courses Development Programme and almost completely at the end of the major national developments . |
| 14 | One other problem raised by Ismail Belig 's account deserves attention , namely the question of whether Molla Fenari held these posts and the Muftilik when he was appointed to it , almost certainly at a later data consecutively or simultaneously ( or , perhaps better , cumulatively ) . |
| 15 | Conversely , support for Saddam Hussein has also become a symbol for this anti-Americanism , and is almost certainly at the root of Third World , especially Latin American , sentiment . |
| 16 | A normal family life , he repeated to himself , and smiled almost wanly at the thought of something that seemed destined to elude him for several years to come . |