Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] almost a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
| 2 | For example , in ascertaining the image of a book on a distant plane , he adopted a procedure familiar to artists for almost a century . |
| 3 | Watson 's remark in a BBC Radio 4 interview reiterated his views of almost a decade earlier . |
| 4 | But , ironically , the longer-term explanation lies in the restrictions Washington has maintained on Japanese car imports for almost a decade . |
| 5 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
| 6 | Their trip , which took 38 hours instead of the normal 22 , coincided with 60ft waves and the worst North Sea gales for almost a century . |
| 7 | Britain 's trade gap almost doubled last month with the worst figures for almost a year . |
| 8 | The oak-beamed four-bedroom house stands surrounded by apple trees in almost an acre of land in the village of Snetterton , just a mile from a racing circuit . |
| 9 | They punished Western support for the Israeli side with a massive price hike , and effectively maintained their control over world prices for almost a decade . |
| 10 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 11 | US Budweiser and the firm in Ceske Budejovice have been at loggerheads for almost a century , exchanging writs over the use of the Budweiser name . |
| 12 | In the following decades Cook 's eye-catching posters and brochure covers set the travel industry 's style for selling dreams , as did his first travel magazine The Excursionist which gave details of Cook 's tours and was published regularly in worldwide editions for almost a century . |