Example sentences of "almost at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just before the Battle of Alamein — Bletchley was providing Montgomery with vital intelligence — and , had I but known it , Leslie was , almost at that same moment , listening on the wireless to ‘ One Fine Day ’ , and suffering because he thought he would never see me again . |
| 2 | Almost at that very moment Millie was standing before the Mother Superior , who was voicing that very word , politeness . |
| 3 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 4 | Daddy kept rather obviously bestirring himself to mind about my exams and piling up my desk with secondary stuff I 've no time for — I do n't want to read literary criticism yet , almost at all , and I 'm damned sure he does n't smother his clever boys with it . |
| 5 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 6 | MAFF 's obsession with linking all incentives under the LFA Directive to the spiral of increasing agricultural activity , almost at any expense , accounts for the absence of any UK limit . |
| 7 | From an initial position of advantage in immediate post-war Britain — when food was required almost at any cost — the agricultural interest succeeded in capturing the regulatory mechanism through the exercise of highly successful pressure-group politics . |
| 8 | ‘ His illness is so grave we will go down almost at any time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It was almost at this moment , too , that the door was thrust open and the indignant lady stood within it and in a loud voice proclaimed in her most officious manner : ‘ When you have come to yourself enough to apologise , Peggy , I 'll see you upstairs in my room . |