Example sentences of "with almost [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Union of Teachers said the boycott remained solid with almost 100pc effectiveness . |
| 2 | No one was dancing , just smooching , and she did n't make a habit of smooching with almost strangers . |
| 3 | The Midland 's branches were making an average profit of less than £7,000 each , compared with almost £10,000 at Barclays , National Westminster and Lloyds . |
| 4 | A very delicate , spotlit recollection of childhood , with almost music box accompaniment , it did n't blend too well with gangway doors opening , light flooding into the darkened auditorium . |
| 5 | On Anglesey , thieves got away with almost £4,000 worth of property from an isolated barn at Brynteg . |
| 6 | The runner-up , with almost 29% of the votes , was the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance . |
| 7 | With almost 90% of the votes counted , FUNCINPEC , the royalist party , had won 45.7% of the vote and the CPP had 38.1% . |
| 8 | Wantage was a decent little town but had less than half the population of Newbury and no inhabitant worth more than £80 , though four others had £40 — £60 ; average wealth of well under £6 compares poorly with almost £10 in Newbury and was not much higher than in most villages . |
| 9 | She was secured with almost over-size , tailored lines and lay stern-to the dock . |
| 10 | As it pointed out , we could double our expenditure on dentists but if people were still not prepared to brush their teeth ( and governments still refuse to fluoridate drinking water ) then the same number of teeth would probably have to be extracted : an appalling 8 million that year , with almost 30% of the people in the country having no teeth of their own . |
| 11 | TV star Bill Cosby comes second with almost £200 million but even singer Michael Jackson only makes it to No 7 , according to black newspaper The Weekly Journal . |
| 12 | Thieves broke into the Harper and Harper store in Northgate , at the weekend and made off with almost £1,500 worth of equipment the third break-in in a few months . |
| 13 | Early portraits employed austere backgrounds , but Frampton increasingly revealed unusual skill in realizing the appearance of three-dimensional objects with almost trompe l'oeil verisimilitude , as well as a keen sense of the texture and even the feel of any depicted substance . |
| 14 | A hard disk is required with almost 16Mb of hard disk available ( some 6Mb is taken up by the opening sequence which can be removed ) , and it may be necessary to allow the program to make its own boot disk if you do not have enough available memory . |
| 15 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |