Example sentences of "[adv] almost [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen . |
| 2 | Mrs Bottomley 's announcement confirmed reports that she had opted to water down some of the Tomlinson proposals , but it still came under almost immediate attack from Labour and the unions . |
| 3 | The reshuffle came under almost immediate fire from former president Francesco Cossiga , who branded the new administration as a government of national hypocrisy . |
| 4 | Beresford came under almost non-stop pressure for the final hour of the match but was only beaten once for all Huddersfield 's domination . |
| 5 | The warrant officer nodded understanding , and he broke rank and moved quickly forward along the outside of the now almost stationary line of troopers . |
| 6 | By 1900 however , the birth rate was plunging as couples chose to have fewer children , just as improved health had also begun to have a marked impact ; and it is the combination in the twentieth century of a now almost stagnant population of small families with a new fall in death rates which explains the striking rise of over-sixty-year-olds to form over 20 per cent of our population today and why , more than in any previous generation , such a high proportion of them are without children . |
| 7 | There is now almost complete coverage of the continental shelf between latitudes 48° and 62°N , and three geophysical maps at 1:1 000 000 ( covering the North Sea , northern Britain , and Ireland and southern Britain ) are in preparation . |
| 8 | The scene before me reminded me of the very similar scenes in the Highland crofts , the only difference being the now almost overpowering smell of onions . |
| 9 | The day commenced with a tour of the now almost deserted facility at Wadeville . |
| 10 | By the 1980s , in the wake of the stagflation and slow growth in even the rich economies of the Western Europe , came an equally almost universal loss of faith in the capacity of any individual state to intervene decisively and effectively . |
| 11 | The PR person is very often in a cleft stick between how he knows the media will react to his story and the sometimes almost mindless enthusiasm of his client or boss . |
| 12 | The only cloud to appear on the horizon was Leopold 's unexpected illness , which obliged the family to move out of town to the peaceful , then almost rural atmosphere of Ebury Street in Pimlico . |
| 13 | But he wrote of the then almost unthinkable independence of the Ukraine and Baltic countries , of the possibility of a Soviet commonwealth , and concluded that while ‘ Marxist doctrine has delayed the break-up of the Russian Empire it does not possess the power to prevent it . ’ |