Example sentences of "almost [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the theory was many years ahead of its time it was almost wholly guesswork and rested on no satisfactory contemporary experimental evidence . |
| 2 | In the extreme southwest of England , N. lapillus very definitely selects mussels in preference to barnacles ( which are almost entirely E. modestus , C. montagui and C. stellatus ) restricting their distribution in some places . |
| 3 | The roots of the law of confidence lie in equity and it is almost entirely case law . |
| 4 | L. Khabarin , B. Mamyrin and V. Yudenich had discovered in 1978 that when they heated several metals to drive out helium trapped within , the gases were almost entirely helium-3 rather than helium-4 ; normally helium-4 is much more abundant , the helium-3 being the rare form . |
| 5 | In Scotland , the 16 ‘ Central Institutions ’ correspond roughly to the polytechnics in the rest of the UK , but in Scotland and Northern Ireland the colleges are typically ‘ monotechnic ’ ( concentrating exclusively on technology , education or art , for example ) , whereas in England and Wales they are now almost entirely multi-subject . |
| 6 | The figures that I have before me certainly show that the highest spending authorities comprise almost entirely Labour and the occasional Liberal authority and that those have some of the worst results . |
| 7 | Design is almost entirely mouse controlled , and is more fun than its name suggests . |
| 8 | In the Auvergne Region , the Departments of Haute-Loire ( in the SE ) and Cantal ( in the SW ) are the two almost entirely upland in character and within the LFA . |
| 9 | It is the dorsal ganglionic centre of the head ; its nerve-cells are almost entirely association neurons and it is formed by the coalescence of the first three neuromeres in the embryo . |
| 10 | The wealthy rub shoulders in the village centre with its quaint olde worlde shops comprising almost entirely estate agents . |
| 11 | Now with the release of her new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ she prepares to take on the world again , with music of an almost other-wordly beauty . |
| 12 | The effect diminishes if there is irrelevant articulatory activity at the time , this raises the possibility that there may be pre-output stores as well as post-input stores , almost literally memory in the fingers . |
| 13 | Not just in harsh action ; increased concern about children is almost always part of a larger concern about people in general , but when horrible things are happening to people it is not unusual to focus on children and try special pleading on their behalf . |
| 14 | It 's almost always crap . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's almost always cannabis ’ , I was told , ‘ and I suppose if the Governor really wanted it stopped , he could — or near enough . |
| 16 | To Southey , the county was almost home territory . |
| 17 | When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to . |
| 18 | Turkey does not want to fight ( her people are at the moment almost frantically pacifist ) : and , if she can help it , she does not intend to fight . |
| 19 | In fact , it is almost about time Mr Brown made a mistake . |
| 20 | ‘ Conceptual and Process Art … claim pure development and change , yet employ almost purely maintenance processes . |
| 21 | Having set the process of achieving an ever closer economic union once more in motion , almost inevitably concern arose in some quarters over the possibility that this could spill over into a closer political union . |
| 22 | Almost immediately barn owls moved in and bred successfully . |
| 23 | But almost immediately Wire 's prop Phil Sumner raced through to score . |
| 24 | But almost immediately violence broke out again . |
| 25 | The fuel used is almost invariably charcoal made from wood or coconut shells . |
| 26 | Warwickshire again look a team with an almost exclusively seam attack . |
| 27 | So we concentrated our leather producing efforts in in where we make almost exclusively leather for the saddlery trade . |
| 28 | Speyside was an area where the units were large and almost exclusively family farms . |
| 29 | C K is a almost almost certainty for the ending it if it 's at the end of the word and it makes a c sound go for C K if it 's got a vowel just in front of it . |
| 30 | From the Central American Common Market in the 1960s onwards , almost everywhere hope has been followed by disillusionment . |