Example sentences of "and almost [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pasterns are strong , springy and almost perpendicular to ground . |
| 2 | And this half hour of sweet silence was the greatest pleasure that night , it was its crowning moment ( Boy thought , this is as good as coming together ) , the precious moment from which Boy was to go home exhausted and almost jaded with pleasure , the moment to which all the overtures of the night had led . |
| 3 | Her letters had been so short of late , and almost devoid of news . |
| 4 | Thirdly , both arid and glacial climates leave the landforms bare and almost devoid of vegetation and , since the regions as a rule are infertile , natural forms are left unobscured by the activities of man . |
| 5 | The best Gorgonzolas should be clean and sharp and almost green in appearance rather than blue . |
| 6 | It was intended to use the new ‘ RM ’ type buses to replace the trolleybuses as they were larger than their predecessors and almost comparable in capacity . |