Example sentences of "almost the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence . |
| 2 | In 1051 almost the entire Godwin family was exiled , and Edward sent Ealdred with troops to intercept Earl Harold Godwinsson [ q.v. ] as he fled , but , according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , ‘ they could not or would not . ’ |
| 3 | Again , the same cell ( in halved note-values , i.e. ) comprises almost the entire development section of the first movement of the ‘ Pastoral ’ Symphony , being repeated seventy-two times at one point , with hardly a break ( Example 1(b) , below ) . |
| 4 | With no barnacles or mussels to be seen , almost the entire dog-whelk population on Cape Enrage ( New Brunswick , Canada ) was feeding on young edible winkles Littorina littorea in November 1981 ( Crothers , 1983a ) . |
| 5 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 6 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 7 | Almost the entire Pilkington Cup fourth round programme was wiped out by frost at the end of January . |
| 8 | Almost the entire labour force might be made up of seasonal workers . |
| 9 | He recalled the ‘ ferocious debates that we had in the House back in the 1970s when , if I recall correctly , the Public Lending Right Bill was almost the only government bill that was defeated by Opposition backbenchers . |
| 10 | I mean the phrase better low pay than no pay , has been used to sort of describe the economic situation and , and , and the , and almost the economic development strategy . |
| 11 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 12 | He began work in September 1567 in Carrickfergus , and by the autumn of 1570 he had mapped parts of Ulster and almost the whole area south of a line from Killary harbour to Strangford lough . |
| 13 | This , of course , is almost the natural management approach of the private sector , exemplified by the manufacturing industry where output of products and costs of manufacture are absolutely crucial information . |
| 14 | It had been almost the unofficial waste basket papers were dumped there to be kept but no one had been through it carefully for perhaps a century . |