Example sentences of "[vb past] almost [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pound fell almost a pfennig to 2.7880 German marks yesterday — just one pfennig above its floor in the ERM — sparking fears of new increases in interest rates . |
| 2 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 3 | But he gave an account of having grown up being looked after by black servants because both his parents worked , and he claimed that , after they had separated , a black housekeeper named Evelyn became almost a mother-figure to him . |
| 4 | Thereafter he became almost a father to me . |
| 5 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |