Example sentences of "[adv prt] almost [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Professor Michael Prestwich reminds us , men such as Leyburne , Hastings , Odo de Grandson , or Sir John St John served in almost every part of Edward 's possessions : England , Aquitaine , Ponthieu , Wales , Ireland . |
| 2 | This rhythm recurs in almost every bar of the piece . |
| 3 | By 1990 , Sudan had become enmeshed in almost every kind of economic and political crisis . |
| 4 | It loomed in almost every frame of the Fabians ' film — a sugar-loaf , bottle-green and black , its cliffs forbidding behind their skirt of angry white water . |
| 5 | Examples occur in almost every region of eastern England in which graves occur in significant numbers . |
| 6 | There is of course no formal contradiction in combining austerity of devotion with ebullience of architectural and internal decoration , but the combination illustrates the contrasts which we find in almost every area of Anselm 's life . |
| 7 | The rules and institutions which regulated medieval agriculture and ordered rural society differed in almost every particular from place to place and from generation to generation . |
| 8 | The tall , fast growing trees that have been planted along almost every road in China — in columns sometimes two to five trees deep — help to provide good timber . |
| 9 | Q3 underwriting loss $53m lower at $28.3m produced deficit down almost a half from $259.7m to $133.1m as remedial action proved increasingly effective . |
| 10 | The road in question was to be the new North Parade , and — just to be sure — the Trustees wanted permission if necessary to knock down almost the whole of Pig Street and a lot else besides , including : |
| 11 | Many people 's experience of parents ' evenings seems to be unsatisfactory with parents attending through almost a sense of obligation and duty rather than that of pleasure . |
| 12 | He says that when a jet of ‘ inflammable air ’ [ hydrogen ] was burned in a receiver filled with ‘ common air ’ … ‘ the common air is contracted a full fifth of its original dimensions ; immediately after the flame is extinguished , there appears through almost the whole of the receiver , a fine powdery substance like a whitish cloud ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ El-Gama'a el-Islamiya asserts that the blood of Ahmed Zaki and his men , who have avenged the blood of tens of militants spilled over almost a year in Egypt , will not dry until the blood of revenge flows , ’ the militants said in a statement . |
| 14 | The applications of this principle extend over almost every field of economic inquiry . |
| 15 | Initially , the children were waking up almost every night of the week , and about three or four times a night . |
| 16 | For labouring people and out-servants the average income per head is given as £4 10s ( £4.50 ) against an expenditure of £4. 12s ( £4.60 ) , while for cottagers and paupers , whom he considered to make up almost a quarter of the population , the respective figures are £2 and £2 5s ( £2.25 ) . |
| 17 | It was now ten years since he had died , and during the first year she had herself pushed the handcart out almost every day for , except for young Ben , she was on her own . |
| 18 | But after a couple of weeks around Cardiff and Southampton docks — where there was a similar dry-dock to the battleship dock at St Nazaire — they could each carry out almost every demolition in under 10 minutes . |
| 19 | Minkowski worked in a vigorous school of mathematicians whose traditions stretched back almost a century to Carl Gauss . |
| 20 | The 90-page report by district auditor Paul Claydon concluded : ‘ There has been a succession of failings touching on almost every directorate within the council . |
| 21 | The yard was squalid and run down , the lads slouched about the place resentfully , the tack was old and dirty with repair patches showing on almost every item of leather . |
| 22 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 23 | This reminder appears on almost every page of the Delta Air Lines Stewardess Training Manual . |
| 24 | J Ed ; gar Hoover lied about almost every episode in his career . |