Example sentences of "[noun pl] almost to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashen-faced , she was gibbering quietly to herself , her petrol-sodden hair plastered to her head and her dripping gown showing her legs almost to the crotch . |
| 2 | And when it sprayed sparks almost to the edge of the wide hearth he made no comment , such as , ‘ Be careful . |
| 3 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 4 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 5 | He had no doubt that , mentally , most of the group now waiting in the library to be interviewed were following his actions almost to the minute . |
| 6 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 7 | His only luxury was the purchase of books , which filled his canonical lodgings almost to the point of impenetrability — even the bath contained the files of the Church Quarterly Review — but his library was unsystematic and lacked bibliographical distinction . |
| 8 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 9 | Browndown Beach 0900 hours almost to the minute , and RFA Sir Percivale is dropping anchor 400 yards offshore . |
| 10 | In Millett , Daly and Frye , women are seen primarily as victims : the monolithic brutality and psychological pressures of male power have reduced women almost to the state of being ‘ non-persons ’ . |
| 11 | And then , on the way home , something happened which raised their spirits almost to the point of singing . |
| 12 | A small river runs into th sea at one side , but on the other there is a large expanse of grassland which runs down from the walls almost to the sea . |