Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] almost a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 2 | Both women died instantly but Mark , who was trapped for almost an hour in the wreckage , was taken to Wexham Park Hospital , Slough , Berks , with severe chest and leg injuries . |
| 3 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 4 | The stroke works well in boats of this length but in the last six years the average length of kayak has dropped by almost a metre . |
| 5 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |
| 6 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |
| 7 | THE cost of telephoning Europe will be slashed by almost a quarter throughout January . |
| 8 | Fair point , but the Leeds defence has struggled for almost a season and he still has n't put it right . |
| 9 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 10 | A MYSTERY man who has not spoken for almost a week broke his silence yesterday to Darlington police . |
| 11 | We can describe Tyneside ship-building and -repair as reduced to almost a minimum with a cowed work force accepting the logic of management 's competitive position . |
| 12 | With losses in the fourth quarter of $40.1m lower at $42.1m ( 1991 : $82.2m loss ) the UK underwriting deficit at the full year was reduced by almost a half from $341.9m to $175.2m as action on rates and operating costs proved increasingly effective . |
| 13 | Civil Service manpower has been reduced by almost a quarter . |
| 14 | Tomba had led by almost a second on the first run . |
| 15 | But third births increased by almost a quarter , and higher order births by 18 per cent . |
| 16 | It all stemmed from the fact that England had tried for almost a century to conquer Scotland — and failed . |
| 17 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 18 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 19 | We are faced with almost a month of lies , halftruths , gossip , innuendo and invective from the two main parties . |
| 20 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 21 | he said you are by the number of payments you is n't paid he said you have n't paid for almost a year but he said you have n't money . |
| 22 | Slips , trips and falls accounted for almost a half of all major injuries while injuries resulting from exposure to harmful substances in the chemical industry ( 15.8 per cent ) were , not surprisingly , significantly higher than in the manufacturing industry as a whole ( 5.5 per cent ) . |