Example sentences of "almost at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the manufacturing counties you see the wheel going almost at every door , the wool and the yarn hanging up at every window , the looms , the winders , the combers , the carders , the dyers , the dressers , all busy ; and the very children as well as the women constantly employed . |
| 2 | Even when there are n't seemingly many jobs for anybody I think a mathematician is probably as well off as anybody to get a job , almost at every level . |
| 3 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 4 | London was almost at a standstill , said the man in the cigarette queue , and now it was Liverpool 's turn . |
| 5 | Easing the restrictions could help restart TV commercials ' production in Dublin , now almost at a standstill , adds Jim Nolan , director , IAPI ( Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland ) which represents nearly all ad agencies . |
| 6 | Almost at a stroke Government had moved town planning into a higher gear , with a national system of development control , ubiquitous in operation . |
| 7 | The structure of your project needs to be visible , almost at a glance . |
| 8 | Almost at a signal , though none was given , the women rose . |
| 9 | Now , with the division of Germany almost at an end , there are uncomfortable questions about the future of the two alliances , and how , if at all , they can be fitted into a Europe that includes a re-unified Germany . |
| 10 | Throughout his life Coleridge found such resolutions far easier to make than to abide by , and in reality his university career was almost at an end , as was any possibility of academic distinction . |
| 11 | Those last high-spirited weeks at Alfoxden and Stowey were almost at an end by the time Cottle and Hazlitt left for home . |
| 12 | The Astra has now clocked up 17,300 miles and our time together is almost at an end . |
| 13 | Despite this bad start , this was to be the only meeting the unit was to have with Müncheberg 's Messerschmitts , for their time in Sicily was almost at an end . |
| 14 | Tom Reynolds had been a loyal and useful ally but now his usefulness was almost at an end . |
| 15 | The journey was almost at an end . |
| 16 | He lifted his eyes and saw that he was almost at the top . |
| 17 | However , Geoffrey is almost at the top of his salary scale and does not want extra commitments . |
| 18 | They must be almost at the edge of the cliff . |
| 19 | But the fall began almost at the beginning of 1966 ! |
| 20 | He thought he could remember roughly where it was : on the side of Big Allen facing him , the northern face , almost at the foot and a little to the right of centre . |
| 21 | They were almost at the church before he wrenched his mind back to the present . |
| 22 | Constance was clutching her arm , and they were almost at the church . |
| 23 | The three figures were now almost at the road and out in the open when Taff opened fire with a long burst . |
| 24 | Then , it seemed hours later , when he sensed or smelt or somehow divined that he was almost at the road , there came , as likely as not out of his own imagination , the delicate sound of an indrawn breath . |
| 25 | Now the other two were almost at the bottom of the ramp . |
| 26 | The tide was out , almost at the bottom of the ebb , and a great expanse of weed-covered rocks lay between him and the sea . |
| 27 | Sylvaner is almost at the bottom of the quality scale ( below Sylvaner is Chasselas , used only in blends ) . |
| 28 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 29 | Silver was almost at the crest when suddenly , from half-way up , there came a high screaming — the sound a rabbit makes , not to call for help or to frighten an enemy , but simply out of terror . |
| 30 | She was almost at the door when Rain said : ‘ I 'll come with you . |