Example sentences of "almost the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first he did not identify Maud Bailey , and he himself was not in any way remarkable , so that they were almost the last pair at the wicket gate . |
| 2 | Until almost the last day I could not believe that we were really leaving Abyssinia for good , that we should not be coming back . |
| 3 | Almost the last brick in the wall of Folly 's resistance had been demolished , but there was something that still rankled . |
| 4 | Almost the last act of the decade was the decision to wind up the Artisans , originally planned to be by December 1984 ; although in 1980 it was brought forward to 1981 . |
| 5 | Mr Harwood constructs a neat cat 's cradle of ironies and he keeps you guessing until almost the last minute about how the fraternal conflict is going to resolve itself . |
| 6 | The pie committee saw all their stipulations were met but attempts to stop it were made until almost the last minute . |
| 7 | Newry clinched the points with almost the last kick of the game , Ralph scoring after sub Gary Hughes put him clear . |
| 8 | Newry clinched the points with almost the last kick of the game , Ralph scoring after sub Gary Hughes put him clear . |
| 9 | Britain was almost the last country in Western Europe to legislate , though it had been in Britain that the debate had originated decades earlier . |
| 10 | in the following issue of The Building News asked if ‘ E.A.F. ’ had ever heard of an astylar composition , but another reply , from ‘ A. ’ in The Times on 1st November , was to be almost the last comment in that newspaper on the controversy . |
| 11 | Until almost the last moment there were lingering hopes in the British camp that the West German Chancellor might signal some differences with his French allies . |
| 12 | The result also appears to be a vindication of his gamble to delay the election until almost the last moment in the hope that signs of economic recovery would persuade voters to give him a mandate . |
| 13 | I was in almost the last batch to receive the award . |
| 14 | So the solving of your mystery should be a much more gradual affair than any sudden flash of revelation coming to the hero and being kept under his deerstalker till almost the last page . |
| 15 | It was almost the last item of discussion with Nik Powell before Powell 's departure . |
| 16 | It will only change when the psychology behind it has changed ; and this psychology is based on two die-hard principles which together constitute almost the last vestiges of his own Indian-ness . |
| 17 | More , he was almost the last representative of Tory paternalism of the old one-nation type , an important source of consolidation within the Cabinet . |
| 18 | Almost the last thing she wanted to deal with was a hysterical empath . |
| 19 | Almost the last thing , she amended silently . |