Example sentences of "[prep] almost [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , after almost 10 years of revisionism , of U-turns on nuclear weapons , devolution , the European Community , state ownership , trade unions , the sale of council houses and more , Labour is still unelectable , is it now time or even overdue for Labour to pull up its roots and die , making room for an acceptable alternative to another decade of Conservative rule ? |
| 2 | After almost four hours of play , the Meteors proved too strong for the visitors , running out winners 18 — 8 … the Meteors well and truly making a home run . |
| 3 | Canada 's longest-serving provincial Premier , John Buchanan of Nova Scotia , resigned on Sept. 12 ( after almost 12 years in office ) amid allegations of corruption within his PCP administration . |
| 4 | After almost 20 years of suppression due to the civil war and military regimes , President Yowei Museveni is trying to bring in a more open , humane government which allows freedom of expression . |
| 5 | ‘ After almost ten years as party leader and eight and a half as prime minister , the time has come for me to step aside , ’ he told a news conference in Ottawa after announcing his decision to his party . |
| 6 | The fall in the cost of iron and steel plates in the 1870 s made composite shipbuilding uneconomic and , towards the end of the nineteenth century most of the world 's deep sea cargo was carried by big sailing ships of almost standardized construction with steel hulls , steel decks , steel spars and steel rigging . |
| 7 | On the lower parts of the marsh , which are most frequently covered by the tide , accretion at the rate of almost 1 cm per year has been recorded at Scolt Head Island , while at higher levels , where the frequency of flooding by the tide is less , this is reduced to one half or less of the rate at the lowest levels . |
| 8 | Bruskin and the poet-conceptualist Lev Rubinshteyn have displayed a collaborative work , a manuscript book of almost 200 pages with text and illustrations on separate leaves . |
| 9 | Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools . |
| 10 | Yet we saw in Chapter 1 that plants are the source of almost all life on Earth ; they alone can create the organic molecules which the animals consume . |
| 11 | The chief effect of his Bill would have been the banning of almost all images of homosexuality from the small screen . |
| 12 | First to profit from this trend are Bradford 's Dudley Hill , who , with five members of the English Students World Cup squad in their side , have made an explosive start in the BNFL national league , leading the first division with six wins from six matches at an average of almost 40 points per game . |
| 13 | This rule can not be applied to items from the newer weaving countries ( Pakistan and the Balkans , etc ) which produce workshop versions of almost any type of design . |
| 14 | ‘ Production at that time was polyester and polyamide for a wide variety of end uses including almost all types of clothing — and for carpets and industrial needs from tyre reinforcement to sewing threads , ’ said Coleman . |
| 15 | Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself . |
| 16 | By April 23 Lithuanian officials were claiming that a near-total economic blockade was in operation , with almost all supplies of fuel , foodstuffs , raw materials and manufactured goods having been suspended . |
| 17 | The portrait is hyper-real , with almost obsessive attention to surface , to clothing . |
| 18 | It looked as though the repressive policy of James V had died with him , and that Scotland , presided over by Arran and the powerful Hamilton faction , was now moving with almost unbelievable ease towards alliance with England and some measure of Protestant reform . |
| 19 | And now for some purpose of his own he shook her off , and with almost insulting lack of finesse . |
| 20 | Certainly the thought must occur to anyone acquainted with almost any part of science , or even a small selection of scientific laws . |
| 21 | You and your neighbours , colleagues and soulmates are free to meet and set up a voluntary organization with almost any aim in mind . |
| 22 | He is credited with almost miraculous powers of healing . |
| 23 | The ESRC Data Archive houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom with almost 4000 datasets of interest to researchers from many different disciplines . |
| 24 | Furthermore , all normally occurring modifications in yeast tRNA Asp were found in almost stochiometric amounts after injection of the wt-like tRNA Asp a into X.laevis oocytes ( Table 1 ) . |
| 25 | All the information is stored on these computerized records resulting in almost instant access to information about NMS objects . |
| 26 | Undergraduate applications for places increased in almost all areas with demand being particularly high for Film and Media . |
| 27 | In the international market place , in almost all walks of commerce and industry , confidence in English can be the key to better performance . |
| 28 | For comparison , omeprazole given subcutaneously at a dose of 30 mg/kg resulted in almost complete inhibition of acid output ( 12 ( 2 ) µmol/30 minutes ) and pepsin output ( 0.15 ( 0.04 ) mg/30 minutes ) . |
| 29 | From the coffin leapt a tall and muscular figure ; his features obscured by a goatskin devil-mask , he was dressed in almost African fittings of grass and leather , small rodent skulls dangling from his waist . |
| 30 | Eyre 's working life was spent in almost equal parts between north-east England , mainly in Newcastle upon Tyne as assistant priest , priest , and rector from 1856 to 1868 , and in the west of Scotland in Glasgow as archbishop from 1869 until his death . |