Example sentences of "[vb past] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the months thereafter he sank almost completely from view . |
| 2 | The moment they stepped on to the moor itself their feet sank almost to the ankle . |
| 3 | 1,177 of her crew were killed including Rear-Admiral Isaac Kidd and Captain Franklin von Falkenburg , she sank almost at once in forty feet of water . |
| 4 | His voice sank almost to a whisper . |
| 5 | Meals , for example , are eaten communally at long tables and comprise simple but excellent fare , created almost entirely from estate produce . |
| 6 | They also made the evening gown for her first official engagement , a charity gala in the city of London , which created almost as big a sensation as the dress which graced St Paul 's Cathedral a few months later . |
| 7 | Perhaps , though , it was Pepper 's display which exposed some of their deficiencies for the impetus was created and maintained almost exclusively by the forwards , who dominated the lineout and drove magnificently . |
| 8 | While the agencies maintained almost total control over the enforcement of standards , a control which could be preserved in the absence of publicity , this posed no problem : ‘ A lot of the standards were set by River Authorities ; and the works were n't capable of achieving [ them ] anyway , ’ a senior official said . |
| 9 | And she had a cold : she sneezed almost immediately after I came in . |
| 10 | Anxiety over this question surfaced almost immediately in a dispute about the size of retinue to accompany the king from Ludlow to his coronation . |
| 11 | Anxiety over this question surfaced almost immediately in a dispute about the size of retinue to accompany the king from Ludlow to his coronation . |
| 12 | But they very soon did , for within a few days , on October 19 , Keith made a speech in Edgbaston which demonstrated almost unbelievable ineptitude for someone in the running for the Leadership . |
| 13 | In western Canada , in those days , people held somewhat puritanical ideas which excluded almost anything but hymns and classical music on the Sabbath day . |
| 14 | First hints of that occurred almost casually , when Michael Ledeen , the first American into the swamp , was chatting with ‘ an intelligence official of a West European country ’ early in 1985 . |
| 15 | There are altogether thirty instances of this in the two sets of interviews , resulting from three different situations which occurred almost equally commonly : need for housing space , death , or desertion . |
| 16 | I could put everything on my back between villages because , this side of Adrar , they occurred almost every twenty miles . |
| 17 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 18 | Yusupov had prepared an unusual opening variation : taking only six minutes over the first 14 moves , while Karpov used almost an hour . |
| 19 | The Harold Hill pair used almost identical methods to lure the mirrors with Kenny ( right ) taking a 21 lb 6 oz specimen and Mark a 21 lb 4 oz fish . |
| 20 | In her column , which she used almost as a diary , she gives a charming account of the early encounters . |
| 21 | Mrs Joel said that the first year she did it she used almost all privet , as she was frightened of running out of material half way through and she knew there was always plenty of that around . |
| 22 | He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’ |
| 23 | Roughly 60% of the export credits was extended in foreign currency and used almost exclusively for the financing of ships and passenger aircraft . |
| 24 | Their presence in totally inadequate police accommodation is authorised by the Prisons ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1980 , a statute passed as an emergency measure to cope with an industrial dispute with prison officers and used almost continuously ever since . |
| 25 | The division of the stimuli by accident estimates used almost the entire set of 48 stimuli . |
| 26 | Brick was the material developed and used almost universally for permanent buildings , timber for some other structures . |
| 27 | The Blue Mosque , which Owen had seen the previous day on his visit to the bazaars , was a dervish mosque , used almost exclusively by such as the Zikr . |
| 28 | On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form . |
| 29 | Each Dalek weighed almost a hundredweight , stood 4′ 8″ high and cost £120 . |
| 30 | This movement was transmitted to cranks on the rear wheel by connecting rods ; the machine weighed almost exactly half a hundredweight and the physical effort required to ride it must have been very considerable . |