Example sentences of "almost [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desk-top fax machines are spreading across the world almost as prolifically as forests once did . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although he had always feared the night , the boy knew the big house in darkness almost as well as in daylight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The study by Kelsall , Poole and Kuhn suggests that working-class students perform almost as well as other students . |
| 9 | For that matter , he 'd seen that loft being put together , knew it almost as well as that self-opinionated young architect had . |
| 10 | Not only this , but by his instructions several of the petty officers can make and calculate these observations almost as well as himself . ’ |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | She knew it almost as well as she knew London . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago . |
| 15 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 16 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 17 | When a routine problem arises he perhaps assembles the information and pursues his inferences to the conclusion almost as tidily as he would on paper . |
| 18 | ‘ Underload ’ , associated with a poorer idea of progress , uncertainty about how to deploy time , panic at exams , etc. , was perceived almost as negatively as overload . |
| 19 | In his head , as in mine , the unending private minute is being written and I can read it , I discover , almost as clearly as my own . |
| 20 | One blind six-year-old could even steer a tricycle almost as skilfully as a sighted child . |
| 21 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 22 | Revell 's tactic has been to make the body four inches deep , to maximise the volume of air within the guitar ; the body is in fact almost as deep as the soundhole rosette is wide . |
| 23 | She now drew her chin into her chest and in a voice almost as deep as a man 's she said , ‘ And you dare to tell me to shut up , me ! who 's given her life to you . |
| 24 | The Kiwi tour continues at Wigan , where after the Oldham upset , the home side need a confidence booster almost as badly as the visitors , whose efforts so far have been disjointed . |
| 25 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 26 | If initiatives of this kind are sustained , and matched by measures which increase the informals ' security once they are in business , the sector can certainly gather greater strength and has the potential to generate jobs almost as fast as the urban population grows , but at very low levels of income , and in the form of enterprises where investment and technology is minimal . |
| 27 | The Soviet Union was ready with its condemnation , almost as fast as Mrs Thatcher was with her welcome . |
| 28 | Guildford has counted almost as fast as Torbay — but not quite . |
| 29 | These variations on the E- theme are taking off almost as fast as E itself . |
| 30 | If you have a supply of Duckweed — or Indian Fern , which grows almost as fast as Duckweed in my tanks — you can use this to advantage , as it will supply relatively-natural vegetable food and can , unlike plants which need to be rooted to thrive , be easily replaced . |