Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that almost [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities reported that almost 19,000,000 people , or 65 per cent of those eligible , had voted . |
| 2 | The study found that almost 20 per cent developed significant problems including anxiety , depression , fear of driving or being a passenger and many continued to have vivid memories of the accident months after the event . |
| 3 | Furthermore , by 1980 one study found that almost 60 per cent of bank lending to the industrial and commercial sectors constituted ‘ medium-term finance ’ . |
| 4 | Barker 's ( 1984 , p. 22 ) review of the living arrangements of elderly people of Asian and Afro-Caribbean origin indicates that almost three-quarters of Asian elderly people live in large households and as few as 5 per cent live alone , whereas the household composition of elderly people of Afro-Caribbean origin is similar to that in the white population . |
| 5 | In late January ICRC officials reported that almost 10,000 people had been displaced as a result of the fighting . |
| 6 | Yet the 1986 figures from the Department of Health and Social Security suggest that almost 9 million , a sixth of the total British population are living on a wage which is on or below the SB poverty line . |
| 7 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 8 | On Oct. 22 a UN spokesman said that almost 250 people had died of hunger daily in Bardera since the relief workers left . |
| 9 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that almost 1,000 people were estimated to have been killed " and many more injured " . |
| 10 | The report claimed that almost 400 Lao civilians had crossed into the Thai province of Loei to escape the fighting . |
| 11 | Reports from Kabul Radio indicated that almost 200 people were killed in July during heavy fighting between mujaheddin factions belonging to the Hezb-e-Islami ( Gulbuddin group ) , the Ittehad-e-Islami and the Jamiat-e-Islami . |
| 12 | The survey reveals that almost three in four of those living in Scotland and the north do not know how much of their current salary is contributed to their pension , while almost half have no idea about the approximate level of return of their pension . |
| 13 | The survey showed that almost two-thirds of small firms were selling on credit and 40 per cent were giving more credit than a year previously . |
| 14 | At the May 22 press conference Interior Minister Abdullah Kallal said that almost 300 people — about 100 of them members of the armed forces — had been arrested over recent weeks in connection with a coup plot directed by Ghannouchi . |