Example sentences of "[conj] almost [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Table 4.1 it can be seen that almost one-third of IT postgraduates would be unemployed and looking for work at the end of their course . |
| 2 | A survey in the 1970s showed that almost one-third of rape charges resulted in conviction of attempted rape . |
| 3 | Pasterns are strong , springy and almost perpendicular to ground . |
| 4 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 5 | And this half hour of sweet silence was the greatest pleasure that night , it was its crowning moment ( Boy thought , this is as good as coming together ) , the precious moment from which Boy was to go home exhausted and almost jaded with pleasure , the moment to which all the overtures of the night had led . |
| 6 | Her letters had been so short of late , and almost devoid of news . |
| 7 | Thirdly , both arid and glacial climates leave the landforms bare and almost devoid of vegetation and , since the regions as a rule are infertile , natural forms are left unobscured by the activities of man . |
| 8 | The best Gorgonzolas should be clean and sharp and almost green in appearance rather than blue . |
| 9 | It was intended to use the new ‘ RM ’ type buses to replace the trolleybuses as they were larger than their predecessors and almost comparable in capacity . |
| 10 | He was unscathed but almost sick with fear . |
| 11 | Our approaches were from very different angles in time and geography but almost identical in impression . |