Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] almost [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The imposition of a severe censorship and the sacking of all hostile editors ( there were almost no spetsy in the press ) immediately upon the seizure of power in October 191 7 had ensured its smooth running from the political and administrative point of view . |
| 2 | This patient 's verbal output consisted almost entirely of content words there were almost no function words and no grammatical structure . |
| 3 | 25 years ago there were almost a quarter of a million dairy farmers in England and Wales . |
| 4 | I arranged for Jaggers to be his lawyer , but Jaggers warned me there was almost no hope of saving his life . |
| 5 | In fact , by this stage , the state Department knew that there was almost no country prepared to accept the Shah . |
| 6 | There was almost no money on course for the horse and the only serious cash , about £1,000 in a series of small bets , was placed in the Bradford area . |
| 7 | There was almost no escape from television . |
| 8 | There was almost no time of day when we could be together alone . |
| 9 | All such activities paid dividends in the sense that , until the second half of the seventies , there was almost no questioning of the Shah 's priorities or stability in the American press or congress . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century , there was almost no standardization in science or in technology . |
| 11 | There was almost no traffic on the roads , though it was only ten-thirty . |
| 12 | There was almost a concern to avoid the problem of the British state . |
| 13 | Staff got frazzled , speakers got angry and there was almost a fist fight between some of my colleagues and the lighting technicians . |
| 14 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 15 | They could sense a difference in the days now , sometimes there was almost a rime of frost on the shady side of the woods , and the old pony 's cost was thickening ; in the mornings they went off to school . |
| 16 | There was almost a collapse of the cryonic systems when the vaults were besieged by people demanding to reclaim parents and presidents . |
| 17 | A minute later , there was almost a repeat , Norbury crossing again but Dublin shooting over from five yards . |
| 18 | There was almost a tragedy in 1905 when a major fire broke out one night in the early hours of the morning while 44 boys in the boys ' dormitories were asleep . |
| 19 | There was almost a note of relief in their voices . |
| 20 | There was almost a note of amusement in his voice now . |
| 21 | There was almost a desperation about the way we 'd try and fill our recreational time with something worthwhile . |
| 22 | After a while , there was almost a telepathy between them . |