Example sentences of "of almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | This confidence survey is conducted among UK hotel general managers and is based on a sample of almost 100 drawn from different classes , sizes and styles of hotels geographically spread across the country . |
| 2 | The cause of almost every incident where the airbrakes open during the launch is that the pilot has failed to lock them correctly . |
| 3 | It is at the root of almost all the player power problems . |
| 4 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 5 | The result is a fairly large volume between the coils of almost uniform field strength given by : where r is the mean radius of the coils in meters , N is the number of turns in each coil and I is the current flowing in the coil in amperes . |
| 6 | — There is no doubt of the charm of almost all of W's work . |
| 7 | The price paid for the acquisition , including a fruit plant near Valencia and a bottling plant in Barcelona , appears high since the businesses being acquired had sales of £29.6m in 1988 and trading profits of £2.2m , implying a p/e on conventional terms of almost 30 . |
| 8 | The price tag of almost £100m , and the fact that Fuji has agreed to a minority stake , has clearly also provided Mr Branson with reassurance — if he needed any — that taking Virgin private last year was the right thing to do . |
| 9 | Andrew Hugh Smith , ISE chairman , said : ‘ Turnover in UK equities has seen an increase of almost 50 per cent over the past year , alleviating some of the problems caused by the very low volumes after the market crash . |
| 10 | According to the confidential figures , the 12 inner London authorities face an underlying deficit of almost £30m this year , and have identified £18m of savings . |
| 11 | Included in the pardon were General Leopoldo Galtieri , the former army commander and president , and 38 other officers who faced trial over the disappearance and presumed execution of almost 9,000 people during the 1976-83 military regime . |
| 12 | The strong rich voice and the ready deep-throated laugh completed the impression of almost invincible benevolence . |
| 13 | Fears were growing last night that the enforced departure of almost all foreign journalists from East Germany by midnight would signal the beginning of a sharp crackdown on all dissent . |
| 14 | The president of the Writer 's Association , Hermann Kant , a central committee member , said the exodus of almost 50,000 refugees could not be blamed on the ‘ wicked class enemy ’ in West Germany : ‘ A defeat is a defeat even if it comes on the eve of a glorious celebration . ’ |
| 15 | The most common estimate is between 3.5 million and 4 million , with the Catholic church at around 1 million out of a population of almost 17 million . |
| 16 | First to profit from this trend are Bradford 's Dudley Hill , who , with five members of the English Students World Cup squad in their side , have made an explosive start in the BNFL national league , leading the first division with six wins from six matches at an average of almost 40 points per game . |
| 17 | CASES OF people infected with the Aids virus , HIV , are now increasing at a rate of almost five a day , according to the latest government figures . |
| 18 | Kleinwort last month reported a decline in pre-tax profits of almost £5m to £30.1m in the first half , though recovering from loss in the previous six months . |
| 19 | In a week when government figures showed that cases of people infected with the Aids virus are now increasing at a rate of almost five a day , one could see their point . |
| 20 | Yet this apparently admirable material proved to be of almost no use to the party . |
| 21 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 22 | But accountability and care no more have to be the absolute precondition , the ever-present animating ethic , of sexual relations , homosexual or otherwise , than they do of any other kind except in the obvious sense that care of some kind is the precondition of almost any shared social activity . |
| 23 | The setting of particularly high standards for uniformity and internal consistency makes it impossible to speak of the existence of almost any ‘ ism ’ in policy . |
| 24 | A period of almost literally climbing the walls , turning away from the world and kneeling up , holding the end of the iron hospital bed , and Lisa 's hand firmly on the pain , firmly on the small of her back pressing , pressing , pressing away the pain and the fear , keeping her in contact . |
| 25 | In the case of Kenya , Kenyatta 's age of almost seventy at the time of independence in 1964 meant that the succession issue was alive from the start . |
| 26 | When the Jaguar XJ-S V12 Convertible is available now , for a saving of almost £10,000 over the 300SL-224 's basic price , it 's clear the 300SL-24 is too slow , too expensive and too far away . |
| 27 | Crowds had begun to fall from a first-day county average of almost 15,000 in the 1890s to under 10,000 between 1906 and 1914 . |
| 28 | ln Glasgow a Rangers-Celtic cup-tie in 1937 attracted a crowd of almost 150,000 . |
| 29 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 30 | These include delamination of wrought iron which arises with corrosion , owed to the presence of slag in the material between layers of almost pure iron . |