Example sentences of "almost [adv] well as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names . |
| 2 | On slightly narrower 165/65 section tyres it seems to grip almost as well as the G40 , while its steering seems , if anything , a tad sharper . |
| 3 | Although he had always feared the night , the boy knew the big house in darkness almost as well as in daylight . |
| 4 | Dr Winnifred Cutler , director of the Athena Institute for Women 's Wellness in Philadelphia , discovered that if male pheromones could be attached to women who were n't having regular sex ( by extracting them from men and taping them to women 's upper lips ) then this worked to regulate periods almost as well as regular sex . |
| 5 | He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry . |
| 6 | Memories of shared evenings , with cans of beer and football on the TV , flooded back to Bodie ; shared hours with Ray Doyle , mad pursuits , of cars , of women , shared jokes , anger , support ; he knew this small apartment almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 7 | The study by Kelsall , Poole and Kuhn suggests that working-class students perform almost as well as other students . |
| 8 | For that matter , he 'd seen that loft being put together , knew it almost as well as that self-opinionated young architect had . |
| 9 | Not only this , but by his instructions several of the petty officers can make and calculate these observations almost as well as himself . ’ |
| 10 | From Rotterdam Cottage the cannabis was moved by road in vans to a garage in Station Road , Penge , South East London which , in the words of Scotland Yard 's drugs squad chief was " fortified almost as well as the Bank of England " . |
| 11 | She knew it almost as well as she knew London . |
| 12 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |
| 13 | I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago . |
| 14 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 15 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |