Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's almost a case of sensory overload . |
| 2 | It 's almost a kind of professional remark . |
| 3 | One of the albums was compiled for the Wittgenstein family , documenting almost a decade of nomadic princely travel from house to house . |
| 4 | Despite almost a decade of critical review and the existence of alternative formulas for identifying deprivation the Jarman index remains as good an indicator of potential demand for general practitioner services as exists . |
| 5 | Mr Tholen , aged 67 , was appointed to the post in 1988 after almost a decade as chief executive of the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority . |
| 6 | A TEENAGE horsewoman fought off a man who attacked her on Wimbledon Common yesterday almost a year after young mother Rachel Nickell was stabbed to death in the same area . |
| 7 | Add the chance to accelerate and brake Britain 's most famous locomotive , Pacific ‘ A3 ’ No. 4472 Flying Scotsman , on almost a mile of running line , and you soon come to realise why the Birmingham Railway Museum 's fortunes have been transformed since they granted their unique ‘ School for Steam ’ the right of way . |
| 8 | The solution , as it evolved in practice , was to argue for a sort of grand amalgam , almost a fit of good feeling , in which war would be ended and hostages exchanged and where men would tenderly understand each other . |
| 9 | It is almost a rule of Middle East politics that democracy in Arab states means the emergence of a strong Islamic movement . |
| 10 | Gradually they gained the upper hand and after almost a week of savage fighting the Germans began to fall back . |
| 11 | Jeffrey : For many people involvement in campaigns around AIDS is having a similar effect to involvement in gay liberation campaigns , in that you get a tremendous sense of common feeling , almost a sort of euphoric sense of working together . |
| 12 | ‘ I love absolutely everything that Saint Laurent does : it is almost a sort of national pride ’ |
| 13 | People in Western Europe , for example , rarely dispute that Jesus lived , but in Eastern Europe the denial of his historical existence is almost a canon of Marxist dogma . |
| 14 | Educational technology is therefore offered as almost a synonym for systematic thinking in education . |
| 15 | The Church remained a supernatural fortress set against the world , its walls manned night and day by the committed , its lonely leader almost an oracle of heavenly wisdom . |
| 16 | The Daily Telegraph , in a leading article of April 3 , 1979 , found it ‘ almost an interlude of light relief ’ after a winter of grim industrial strife . |
| 17 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |