Example sentences of "[coord] almost the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One chapter of this book is based on written autobiographies , and almost the whole of the rest on tape-recorded life story interviews . |
| 2 | This is one of the group of ‘ grey geese ’ which is well known as a wintering bird on the mainland of Britain , and almost the whole of the European population breeds in Iceland . |
| 3 | Between 1971 and 1987 the total labour force increased by 2.3 million , and almost the whole of this was attributable to increased employment among women . |
| 4 | His work included the completion of the choir and almost the whole of the antechapel , with all the high vaults , which he built by contract from 1512 . |
| 5 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |