Example sentences of "[noun] almost [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got into injecting speed almost right away 'cos of the rush . |
| 2 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 3 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 4 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 5 | Lord Alverstone recorded that when at the Bar he was able to read the sheets of correspondence almost as fast as he could turn them over , and he never required to read them twice . |
| 6 | One blind six-year-old could even steer a tricycle almost as skilfully as a sighted child . |
| 7 | Dr Winnifred Cutler , director of the Athena Institute for Women 's Wellness in Philadelphia , discovered that if male pheromones could be attached to women who were n't having regular sex ( by extracting them from men and taping them to women 's upper lips ) then this worked to regulate periods almost as well as regular sex . |
| 8 | When a routine problem arises he perhaps assembles the information and pursues his inferences to the conclusion almost as tidily as he would on paper . |
| 9 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 10 | Jackson , who is to give two sell-out concerts at the gigantic Fukuoka Dome on Friday and Saturday , left town almost as fast as he entered it . |
| 11 | In Uruguay a junta that fought subversion almost as brutally as Argentina 's collapsed under its own disagreements in 1984 . |
| 12 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |
| 13 | Not only this , but by his instructions several of the petty officers can make and calculate these observations almost as well as himself . ’ |
| 14 | The Kiwi tour continues at Wigan , where after the Oldham upset , the home side need a confidence booster almost as badly as the visitors , whose efforts so far have been disjointed . |
| 15 | The Manchester Guardian critic noticed that Minton 's figures were becoming less formalised and that he had ‘ fastened on the banana tree almost as tightly as Sutherland had clasped the more uncomfortable thorn-tree to his bosom ’ . |
| 16 | I know these are increasing at a very rapid rate almost as quickly as the new legislations develop and keeping accurate paper records is becoming increasingly more difficult . |
| 17 | I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago . |
| 18 | She now drew her chin into her chest and in a voice almost as deep as a man 's she said , ‘ And you dare to tell me to shut up , me ! who 's given her life to you . |
| 19 | Memories of shared evenings , with cans of beer and football on the TV , flooded back to Bodie ; shared hours with Ray Doyle , mad pursuits , of cars , of women , shared jokes , anger , support ; he knew this small apartment almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 20 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 21 | Desk-top fax machines are spreading across the world almost as prolifically as forests once did . |
| 22 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 23 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 24 | Although he had always feared the night , the boy knew the big house in darkness almost as well as in daylight . |
| 25 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 26 | In France , the Communist Party appeals to reactionary working-class prejudices almost as strenuously as does Mr Le Pen . |
| 27 | If initiatives of this kind are sustained , and matched by measures which increase the informals ' security once they are in business , the sector can certainly gather greater strength and has the potential to generate jobs almost as fast as the urban population grows , but at very low levels of income , and in the form of enterprises where investment and technology is minimal . |
| 28 | Revell 's tactic has been to make the body four inches deep , to maximise the volume of air within the guitar ; the body is in fact almost as deep as the soundhole rosette is wide . |
| 29 | Once returns began to grow and disillusion amongst consumers had set in , the new players began to withdraw from the market almost as quickly as they had entered . |