Example sentences of "[prep] almost the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So why is it , for almost the first time in 150 years , Yorkshire can not contribute a single regular member to the England team ? |
| 2 | What these filmmakers miss is the level of emotional intensity that both the realist filmmakers , whom the critics approved of , and those of a more melodramatic or fantastic disposition , whom they did n't , seem able to conjure , for almost the first time , in the films they produced during the war . |
| 3 | Suddenly , and for almost the first time in her life , apart from in her dreams , Marie felt that she was in a position of power . |
| 4 | I must admit that for almost the first time I feel a stab of concern for him , a gesture of fellow regard . |
| 5 | Then , even as I talked I began to see , for almost the first time , some of the negative factors that I had suppressed or disregarded . |
| 6 | The outcome of the strike and its immediate consequences was that for almost the first time many people , including politicians in the Republic , who had previously been unconvinced were now satisfied that the majority of people in Northern Ireland would not accept a united Ireland and wished to have another election before their future was again discussed . |
| 7 | For almost the first time since his reappearance in her life Laura found herself wondering whether she and Ross could have done anything to save their marriage all those years ago . |
| 8 | In one recent case the victim of a stabbing died two and a half years after the incident , having been kept on a life-support machine for almost the entire time . |
| 9 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 10 | This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's . |
| 11 | Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner . |
| 12 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 13 | At almost the same time , Rossmayne 's blinding rage lifted long enough for him to see what sort of woman had resisted him so resolutely . |
| 14 | Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time . |
| 15 | At almost the same time ( 1516 ) , Thomas More , in his Utopia , wrote the most famous of all denunciations of the evils of enclosure : |
| 16 | At almost the same time , the European Foundation for Quality Management [ EFQM ] , of which ICI is a key member , launched the European Quality Award , it is co-sponsored by the European Commission and the European Organization for quality . |