Example sentences of "almost to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , a week after Obispal 's departure , traffic between the partly ravaged capital and Kefalov seemed to have returned almost to normal . |
| 2 | This disc , running almost to 80 minutes , also includes his accounts of other Sibelius works — Leminkainen 's Return , The Tempest and The Bard , all in authoritative readings . |
| 3 | The visor darkened almost to black opacity , and the suit 's cooler began audibly to work harder . |
| 4 | Educational : The family member 's own opportunities for further education become reduced almost to zero . |
| 5 | In the near-infrared waveband the reflectivity of water drops almost to zero . |
| 6 | Informally , the bank admits that if sterling was still in the ERM , the underlying rate of inflation could be down almost to zero now , but base rates would still be at 10 per cent , and the prospects for the economic growth and unemployment scarcely bear thinking about . |
| 7 | During the next 12 hours observations of Mr Reynolds ' vital signs were gradually reduced in frequency as they became stable and returned almost to pre-operative levels . |
| 8 | His face , paled almost to blue , was crackled with thread veins . |
| 9 | Science 's egocentric constricted views in relation to consciousness and mind have reduced the human mental condition almost to that of a robot 's , with ‘ mystic mumbo jumbo ’ being the label placed on the canons of the sublime Eastern ‘ Science of Life ’ . |
| 10 | Some studies have shown that , within five years of giving up , the risk is reduced almost to that of a nonsmoker . |
| 11 | I w I was coming , I was coming almost to that Jim . |
| 12 | It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way . |
| 13 | Reduced almost to half price , this is an offer to watch out for ! |
| 14 | Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora reported that during his May meeting in Washington with US President George Bush the latter had shown a serious attitude to the drug problem ( the US government having agreed almost to double Bolivia 's anti-drug aid , to $33,000,000 ) . |
| 15 | Nor do they know why for many years , almost to this day , footprints were to be found in a field near to the earthworks of the castle where a famous duel was said to have been fought between two brothers during the Civil War and where no seed would grow . |
| 16 | Elsewhere the nests have proved almost to big to handle . |
| 17 | Considerable physical migration took place — mostly , but not entirely , caused by the activities of the Russians — and some peoples were reduced in numbers almost to vanishing point , while on the other hand at least one new ethno-cultural group was formed . |