Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] almost a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started fishkeeping almost a year ago and I have a 3ft community tank , which is filtered by a Fluval 203 external filter . |
| 2 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 5 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 6 | Being a replacement had become almost a way of life . |
| 7 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 8 | Alfred had become almost a recluse , a man haunted by his dream . |
| 9 | Until that moment Aunt Louise had seemed almost a stranger , her mannerisms and glances unfamiliar , and I had had no real feeling of kinship . |
| 10 | Now that the leg was bandaged and had rested almost a day , it was not as painful , and I was able to manage the five miles to camp in two hours . |
| 11 | Altogether Russell had served almost a year in remand and been found Not Guilty on both of his charges . |
| 12 | Not only had he paid out money , some of it his own , but he had forgone almost a month of lunches with Mrs Tobias in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ . |
| 13 | Preparations had started almost a year earlier , but it was not until winter 1916/17 that they were fully implemented . |
| 14 | As a piece , although the overall process had taken almost a century to unfold and the measures were sometimes half-hearted in terms of their practical realisation , these changes signalled the arrival of a distinctively modern penal system which rested on the reformative and deterrent influence of the prison as its major instrument . |
| 15 | The Fr300,000,000 grant had covered almost a quarter of the venture 's costs . |