Example sentences of "almost the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically the adjoining mills , which for more than a century provided employment for almost the entire village and sup-plemented the picture now provided by the museum , were abruptly shut down in 1988 : bought up by a large firm , the premises were paid an afternoon visit by a director who announced imminent closure and drove off . |
| 2 | Boswell spent an energetic time on Raasay ; he walked almost the entire island and had his dance on top of Dun Can . |
| 3 | All the shops and cafés were sheltered under the arcades , and I found I could walk almost the entire length and breadth of the village under cover . |
| 4 | Almost the first store that went up in the rioting was , predictably enough , that of Mrs Soon . |
| 5 | Accepting kingship was almost the only time that Reza Shah listened to the advice of the Muslim clergy . |
| 6 | She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day . |
| 7 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 8 | Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of an overweight person contracting one of these conditions to almost the same level as a non-overweight person . |
| 9 | Committees are governed by almost the same procedures as the whole House . |
| 10 | Then he gave the calves almost the same treatment as I had and we left . |
| 11 | This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette . |
| 12 | Although small by comparison to some of the latest generation sports cars , the Suzuki is almost the same size as the famed MG Midget , launched more than 30 years ago and which , for two decades personified motoring fun . |
| 13 | However , in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford 's at Cambridge , James Chadwick , discovered that the nucleus contained another particle , called the neutron , which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge . |
| 14 | BROTHERS Steven and Matthew Rivers were almost the same ages as Princes William and Harry when their small world fell apart . |
| 15 | Almost the same colour when you first . |
| 16 | Normally , one is not able to see stars in the sky that are in almost the same direction as the sun . |
| 17 | I found that a Parish Church could present almost the same problems as our Congregational ones . |
| 18 | Cecily , Yvonne and I have determined that we are going to tour South Africa — following almost the same route as Merry Wives — with either the Ballet Club or , if they wo n't cooperate , we will form the South African National Ballet . |
| 19 | Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage . |
| 20 | This one can be made in almost the same way as the Diamond , except that the cross-spar or spreader has to be bent at the centre . |
| 21 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 22 | On 3rd July 1892 , a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft , on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen , gouging out two great fissures in the chalk , and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village . |
| 23 | Nothing is barred , except that your subject ( which is , note , not the same thing as your deeper theme ) should involve crime of some sort and that your presentation of it should be in a manner that will entertain , which is almost the same thing as saying it should be through a progressing story . |
| 24 | He already had an armful of flowers , star-shaped clusters almost the same shade as the sky above . |
| 25 | The leaf-stalks are almost the same length as the leaf-blades . |
| 26 | I hope that the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) will understand that I do not intend to follow what he said in his long speech — it was almost the same length as his speech in our previous debate on the subject — or his wide range of criticisms of the Government 's policy . |
| 27 | ‘ Almost the same age as her — Angie , I mean . ’ |
| 28 | In 1799 Wordsworth 's own daughter , Caroline , would be almost the same age as Emma ; he had , of course , never seen her . |
| 29 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 30 | A big man using a very light club is in almost the same situation as with the experiment of swinging the stick . |