Example sentences of "[art] [noun] almost [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 2 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 3 | Nails slept at the stables almost every night , apparently going home for breakfast . |
| 4 | He shuddered , the words almost a whisper . |
| 5 | The difference between us and those other publications , however , was that NSS was still on the newsstands almost a week after everyone knew that the Tories were back with an overall majority . |
| 6 | After the first meeting , we met the Stapletons almost every day . |
| 7 | Quite involuntarily Lisa gasped , the sound almost a cry of anguish . |
| 8 | Wringe has shown how , traditionally , any conflict of notional ‘ rights ’ , as might arise , for example , between a pupil 's freedom of expression in classroom discourse and a teacher 's authority to control a lesson and behaviour during it , is irreconcilable and tends to be weighed in favour of the teacher almost every time . |
| 9 | Q : You had been in the business almost a decade before you appeared in a blockbuster . |
| 10 | One ancient chronicler , Prokopie Kesarinski , refers to the Slavs and Antii crossing the Danube almost every year and attacking Illyria , Thrace and ‘ all the regions of the Ionian Gulf as far as the outlying districts of Constantinople ’ . |
| 11 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 12 | I speak to her on the phone almost every day and she 's really important to me . ’ |
| 13 | It is a popular place for watersports and seems to host colourful regattas on the water almost every week . |
| 14 | Christ , he really can smite the ball almost the length of the pitch , marvelled Perdita . |
| 15 | Throughout King James 's reign Andrewes preached before him and the Court almost every year at the great festivals of Christmas , Easter and Whitsun . |
| 16 | And I walked past the cathedral almost every day for three years . ’ |
| 17 | On top of that , regulators are changing the rules of the game almost every week : in the latest move , on January 23rd , America decided to relax its rules on the foreign ownership of its airlines . |
| 18 | Try to do something that was nothing to do with the ridiculous lie he had told the headmaster almost a year ago today . |
| 19 | FUND MANAGERS IN THE WINGS Almost every fund manager is convinced that the Charities Act 1992 has completely changed the charities ' investment world . |
| 20 | The Manchester outrage is a considerable escalation from the terrorists ' last attempt to place bombs in the city almost a year ago to the day . |
| 21 | Developers Lakewoods got the go-ahead almost a year ago but delayed starting work because of the recession . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Splendid examples are a youth with a discus and a bearded boxer , his hand bound with thongs , the face almost a portrait as we understand the term . |
| 24 | There have been some important developments since the Bill was last debated in the House almost a year ago . |
| 25 | But there was still a terrified child 's face on a body almost a woman 's . |