Example sentences of "almost [adv] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller finds that patterns are almost always well defined at an early age , consist of between 20 and 25 distinct preferred activities , and are thereafter extremely difficult to change . |
| 2 | When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names . |
| 3 | On slightly narrower 165/65 section tyres it seems to grip almost as well as the G40 , while its steering seems , if anything , a tad sharper . |
| 4 | Although he had always feared the night , the boy knew the big house in darkness almost as well as in daylight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry . |
| 7 | It does not take the actual bankruptcy of a corporate which has issued a bond to adversely affect the bond 's value — a leveraged takeover bid , or the threat of one ( euphemistically known as ‘ event risk ’ ) will do almost as well . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Marble stairs are best , but metal or tough plastic works almost as well . |
| 10 | Medical knowledge is also in large measure constructed , whilst Rueschemeyer 's characterisation of legal competence as ‘ … generalised intellectual skills , various areas of knowledge outside his speciality , and skills in handling interpersonal relations … ’ could almost as well describe the work of the British general medical practitioner ( p.22 ) . |
| 11 | Mechanically , it works almost as well on land as it does in water , so that providing a creature can find a way of breathing , there is little to prevent it walking straight out of the sea and up the beach . |
| 12 | His images have definitely earned themselves a place in the visual language of the past two decades , having been published frequently in newspapers , pamphlets and on postcards , though the claim in a recent press release that his Haywain with Cruise Missiles image was now almost as well known as the original painting by Constable does seem a little far-fetched . |
| 13 | The study by Kelsall , Poole and Kuhn suggests that working-class students perform almost as well as other students . |
| 14 | FOX : There is something in thy person that attracts everyone 's notice , but if a sack had not been a profane thing it would have become thee almost as well . |
| 15 | For that matter , he 'd seen that loft being put together , knew it almost as well as that self-opinionated young architect had . |
| 16 | The lobby has been operating even longer than MI5 and is almost as well known but unlike the secret service , the existence of the lobby has still not been officially acknowledged . |
| 17 | Not only this , but by his instructions several of the petty officers can make and calculate these observations almost as well as himself . ’ |
| 18 | From Rotterdam Cottage the cannabis was moved by road in vans to a garage in Station Road , Penge , South East London which , in the words of Scotland Yard 's drugs squad chief was " fortified almost as well as the Bank of England " . |
| 19 | She knew it almost as well as she knew London . |
| 20 | There were archers with them , but not a great company , and some three-score men-at-arms , all mounted ; and a knot of bright devices he could not quite read at that distance , though their colours did almost as well . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago . |
| 23 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 24 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 25 | Even more surprisingly , this little black and white indictment of the National Health Service did almost as well in the United States as it did in Britain . |
| 26 | While Palermo ( 1973 ) , for example , found that four-to five-year-olds responded appropriately to more nearly all the time , but to less only 39 per cent of the time , an earlier study by Griffiths , Shantz and Sigel ( 1967 ) reported that children of that age understood both more and less almost equally well ( 70 per cent and 65 per cent ) . |
| 27 | On Arc de Triomphe day , therefore , facing much the most searching racecourse trial of his career , Nijinsky was almost certainly well below peak form . |
| 28 | this polarisation of the country and its potential political consequences was recognised by the Conservative Government almost certainly well before the results of the 1987 general election were known … the development of policies to tackle the economic run-down and social deprivation of inner city areas was identified as a major thrust for the new government and many new initiatives were conceived in the first weeks of the new Parliament . |