Example sentences of "almost total [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty International , whose first permitted mission to Sri Lanka since 1982 had taken place in June , published on Sept. 10 a report criticizing the security forces for thousands of killings , and for routinely murdering suspected Tamil guerrillas " with an almost total sense of immunity " . |
| 2 | In contrast there has been the almost total cessation of the reporting of rape trials by the News of the World , as described above ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 3 | They showed ‘ an almost total lack of awareness ’ of the roles of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons in producing ground-level ozone . |
| 4 | Here there is an almost total lack of communication between our politicians and the mass of the British people . |
| 5 | Tioman 's greatest attraction is the almost total lack of anything to do . |
| 6 | His Education Survey 2 Drama ( 1967 ) , totally lacking in officialese , lucidly , wittily reports on a rag-bag of activities done in the name of drama and with an almost total lack of rationale behind the subject . |
| 7 | It was designed to be used when knitting pile and drive lace — though I suspect from the almost total lack of drive lace and pile garments that I 've seen , or rather not seen , that is used at all it 's mainly with the rib transfer carriage ! |
| 8 | From what seems now like an almost total lack of concern when the news of the virus first reached the organization , there is currently a major emphasis within the organization and a constant campaign of re-education of both callers and volunteers . |
| 9 | Remarkably , one might think , one of the lowest — indicating almost total lack of agreement — was with a diagnosis arrived at using the criteria introduced by Eugen Bleuler , the man who coined the term ‘ schizophrenia ’ in the first place ! |
| 10 | To judge from the very wide circulation of the decisions on these details , in contrast to the almost total lack of circulation of the earlier decrees , this concentration of effort was the right policy ; but it took at least another two generations before the aim , which Anselm in 1102 had been confident could quickly be reached , was achieved . |
| 11 | We could only dispose of this debris in the raging Shyok and hope that it would eventually be carried , via the Indus , to the northern frontiers of Pakistan — a region I well remember for its almost total lack of any suitable fuel container ! |
| 12 | In fact , Branson 's almost total lack of interest in music had been an advantage . |
| 13 | She had been lonely from the start of her marriage , despite the presence of a small army of black servants in the Queen Anne plantation house overlooking the James River , and several years had passed before she understood fully that her husband had used his frequent absences , at first on plantation business , then in Washington , to conceal an almost total lack of physical interest in her . |
| 14 | If you could travel back in time to the Middle Ages , you would find yourself surprised by the almost total lack of hedges and fences . |
| 15 | When in 1937 Mussolini , like Hitler , intervened in support of Franco in the Spanish Civil War , and again when he annexed Libya in October 1938 , the ordinary inhabitants of Fontanellato showed an almost total lack of interest ; principally , again , because none of them were involved . |
| 16 | Also conspicuous is the almost total lack of wah-wah infested grooves . |
| 17 | As most similar opinion polls show , there is an almost total lack of consensus , both on the unionist and nationalist sides . |
| 18 | Despite the defeat of the current plotters , the main danger to the government was of another coup attempt , which was seen by many as almost inevitable , given the high level of politicization within the armed forces , the almost total lack of respect for the Constitution , and the inability of the President to move decisively and quickly enough against the disaffected elements . |
| 19 | In architectural terms this is evidenced in the smaller , narrower windows , lack of intricate tracery or coloured glass , the almost total lack of development of the flying buttress system , the poverty of decoration in sculpture and carving . |
| 20 | Also conspicuous is the almost total lack of wah-wah infested grooves . |
| 21 | Umberto Eco 's magisterial novel The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ) , for example , plays on the dialectic between the reader 's curiosity about the medieval world and his/her almost total ignorance of it ( funnelled , as Eco explains in his Reflections on the novel , through the observations of the novice Adso ( Eco 1985 : 33–4 ) ; between the sense that the historical world ( the abbey and the cultural and religious context of the time ) is a world of its own and the sense that it is connected to the world of the reader . |
| 22 | She may perhaps have felt a little out of place but she articulates a rare understanding of what was going on in the place , all underpinned by an almost total recall of the fascinating minutiae of day-to-day events . |
| 23 | But I possessed that night an almost total recall of physical sensations . |
| 24 | This system proved almost exactly equal in structural efficiency , that is in weight , to wood and fabric with the advantage of a smoother outside surface and the almost total elimination of airframe maintenance . |
| 25 | My final reservation relates to the almost total neglect of cognitive approaches to the questions discussed . |
| 26 | The most controversial feature was the building of new fortifications at considerable cost and , as it proved , an almost total waste of money and effort . |
| 27 | The whole performance was an almost total waste of time , and was accompanied by a belief that it was necessary to demonstrate that one was working long hours in the evenings , and preferably all weekends as well . |
| 28 | For one team 's desperate desire to establish its worth in the scrums , Toks has had to play the price of a life confined to a wheelchair , a need for 24-hour-a-day attendants , and an almost total loss of his business and social aspirations . |
| 29 | Ablation of area 17 leads to almost total loss of cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate body , a process known as retrograde degeneration . |
| 30 | As Gibbs ( 1975 , p. 11 ) points out , in a book marking a later resurgence of interest , the positivist eclipse of classicism led to an almost total loss of interest in deterrence in the writings of criminologists , even when they were considering ‘ policy questions pertaining to the control of crime ’ ; and he gives many examples . |