Example sentences of "almost [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if this were true , it would only alter the degree of the problem , as the rocks on the west coast of Scotland are almost entirely hard and the cutting of beaches in narrow straits must indicate that waves of considerable power have operated there . |
| 2 | Indeed , it may seem almost so obvious that the alternative interpretation is not consciously perceived at all . |
| 3 | Five and a half , that 's right he is almost exactly five and a half are n't you ? |
| 4 | The unhurried , drawling delivery of this ‘ apology ’ was almost more insulting than the original incident . |
| 5 | The curt words were almost more frightening than the expected explosion would have been . |
| 6 | A subdued boom is almost more formidable than a boom that 's allowed full bent . |
| 7 | The will and ability to stand is one of the most basic manifestations of the life-force , almost more basic than an interest in food and water . |
| 8 | Almost as critical as the prospect of another ‘ smoking bimbo ’ popping out of the Clinton closet is the probable wild-card candidacy of the pint-sized , populist , anti-politics Texas billionaire , H. Ross Perot , who might hurt Bush harder than he would hurt Clinton . |
| 9 | EAGLE : Almost as rare as the American bald version , an eagle in golf is two strokes under the par of a hole . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , the stimuli and tasks used in dichotic listening research have been almost as varied as the number of investigations undertaken with little or no attempt at proper validation . |
| 11 | But it was from America that British consumers took the idea of the founding of the Consumers ' Association and its magazine Which ? in 1957 , which was soon selling 300,000 copies — almost as many as The Times . |
| 12 | By the outbreak of war , the party had 287 MPs , thirty more than the Liberals and almost as many as the combined Liberal-Labour vote . |
| 13 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 14 | The year 1858 witnessed about 100 peasant disturbances in Estonia , almost as many as the 123 which , according to one estimate , took place in all the Russian provinces of the empire put together . |
| 15 | It was almost as good as a ride at the fun fair . |
| 16 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 17 | It bubbled and spat through a layer of brown scum that stained the outside of the pan , but it smelt good , almost as good as the dinners Frankie sometimes had at school . |
| 18 | Significantly , the use of interviews and questionnaires in mass surveys depended upon the notion that the responses offered by respondents about their conditions and experiences were almost as good as the direct observation of the respondents and their lives ; a far greater coverage of the population could be achieved than by using observational methods . |
| 19 | The neck was stretched out in front so the head hung down low , almost as low as the tiny hooves . |
| 20 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 21 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 22 | It 's almost as grand as a chef these days is n't it . |
| 23 | Three metres long and heavy , almost as tall as a horse , it had a menacing array of sharp teeth . |
| 24 | There were trees outside , great towering hulks of oak , ash and chestnut that stood almost as tall as the house itself . |
| 25 | The shelves near the ground were usually well kept , but higher up they became more disorganised and larger in size , almost as tall as the pupils themselves . |
| 26 | A big broad-shouldered man stood there , looking gently down at her ; he seemed almost as tall as the half-mortals , his shadow streaming a long way across the beach . |
| 27 | She was almost as tall as the outsider . |
| 28 | Newsweek went further : ‘ Almost as enchanting as the mystery ( over the deaths ) was the glimpse the murders yielded into the surprising Hollywood sub-culture , in which the cast of characters played . |
| 29 | A young lizard can regrow one that is almost as long as the original . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's got a capacity for two thousand three hundred containers , and is almost as long as the QE2 . ’ |