Example sentences of "almost [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The punks are almost icons of modern life seen at Easter which is the beginning of the tourist season when Hastings comes to life . |
| 2 | In the 1951 election , almost 97% of those who voted cast their ballots for one or other of the two main parties . |
| 3 | Flowers and creepers became almost part of the architecture . |
| 4 | By then I felt almost part of this cruelly depleted family . |
| 5 | Most of them were young horsemen on the East Anglian farms and a braided belt was almost part of the dress . |
| 6 | Sexual intrigues were almost part of the culture of high politics , and were commonplace in big Whig and Tory families in the early nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Taylor and Walton note that sabotage can be difficult to define : at one end it merges with informal practices which become almost part of normal procedure , ‘ neither openly demanded nor openly questioned ’ , while in extreme cases sabotage may be identified with explicitly political violence . |
| 8 | It was a good thought that ; almost money in the bank . |
| 9 | I estimate that once a future general practitioner enters medical school the nation ( NHS ) can write off almost £3m for training costs , salaries , and pension until his or her death . |
| 10 | Ernst & Young has paid almost £3m in an out-of-court settlement over Arthur Young 's work as auditor of Walker Greenbank . |
| 11 | Sales of books and chimp T-shirts afterwards raised almost £1,000 for the Institute and it 's hoped to start a Northern Ireland branch . |
| 12 | In October 1992 he and raised almost £1,000 at a Cabaret Evening in the parish for Somalia . |
| 13 | A typical European family of four is thus being forced to pay almost £1,000 per year , or above £18 per week . |
| 14 | In the highest-taxed district , Edinburgh , some defaulters now owe over £400 , which means that thousands of couples are almost £1,000 in arrears . |
| 15 | Brewery bosses say that every British couple bringing back the new full drink and tobacco allowance would save almost £1,000 in import duty . |
| 16 | Indeed their protest against restrictions on the individual was almost anarchist in tone . |
| 17 | At first their efforts were disorganized and almost anarchist in inspiration : the movement ‘ to the people ’ in 1874 virtually ignored the political sphere . |
| 18 | As well as being a good social vehicle , the teams raise money for worthy causes and recently donated almost £3200 to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill , Glasgow . |
| 19 | ‘ I can think of one client where almost 90% of their income is generated outside the UK . |
| 20 | With almost 90% of the votes counted , FUNCINPEC , the royalist party , had won 45.7% of the vote and the CPP had 38.1% . |
| 21 | Between them , the two account for almost 90% of Italy 's television audience . |
| 22 | In the last five years , the Pacific Region ( often called the ‘ Christian Continent ’ as almost 90% of its population are professing Christians ) has faced many problems — political , social and economic . |
| 23 | In other words , almost 90% of this proposed reduction in the true incidence of congenital abnormality at birth is to be achieved by destroying affected fetuses through selective , prenatal , non-voluntary euthanasia . |
| 24 | At that time almost 90% of the whole education programme of Rhodesia was in the hands of missionaries and there was a great and growing demand . |
| 25 | As almost 90% of papillas in FAP patients show visible enlargement or deformity suggestive of dysplasia we consider it ethical and clinically desirable to continue such histological assessment . |
| 26 | Almost 90% of UK instalment credit accounts were fully up-to-date in the first three months of this year compared with 89.4% in the corresponding period in 1992 . |
| 27 | The shop raised almost £3,500 since February last year . |
| 28 | Not only is SmartDrive superfluous , it wastes almost 1Mb of RAM . |
| 29 | Raw-material prices reflected concern about Russia , with platinum jumping almost $6 to $356 an ounce after a statement by the official Russian export agency threatening to restrict exports because of recent weak demand . |
| 30 | For example , twenty years ago Coeliac Disease ( intolerance to wheat ) was an illness which began during infancy or early childhood in almost 100% of cases . |