Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 2 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 3 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 4 | It was almost a rerun of experience in Germany and Austria . |
| 5 | Almost a tree in fact . |
| 6 | THE scene was a Tory idyll , almost a caricature of Home Counties Britishness . |
| 7 | Duckham is a much more hapless figure : rather a constrained Everyman , almost a bore in fact . |
| 8 | In the E , areas with scattered trees and bushes , from palm groves and oases to villages and towns ; in the W , as a very recent colonist , mainly since 1950 , almost a commensal of man , especially in towns and villages , and where grain is fed to other birds . |
| 9 | I said nothing to her , of course ; she was considered almost a goddess in Berlin , had a huge following . |
| 10 | His statement is almost a classic of philistinism . |
| 11 | East of this , £1 assessments topped the 45 per cent mark only in Samford hundred , which was practically coterminous with the ‘ rich loam ’ area , identified by Arthur Young , and in the north-eastern corner of the county , which he was ‘ much inclined to class ’ with it , and was almost a part of Norfolk . |
| 12 | Almost a case of history repeating itself , Episode Three ( 'Conspiracy' ) went out on air later than scheduled due to the death of a world-renowned statesman — in this case thanks to the lengthy coverage given to the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on 30 January 1965 . |
| 13 | They could sense a difference in the days now , sometimes there was almost a rime of frost on the shady side of the woods , and the old pony 's cost was thickening ; in the mornings they went off to school . |
| 14 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 15 | He says ; The set is almost a recollection of Fairport 's career . |
| 16 | Q3 losses down by almost a half at $2.4m produced a deficit $14.8m lower at $5.2m . |
| 17 | With losses in the fourth quarter of $40.1m lower at $42.1m ( 1991 : $82.2m loss ) the UK underwriting deficit at the full year was reduced by almost a half from $341.9m to $175.2m as action on rates and operating costs proved increasingly effective . |
| 18 | Q3 underwriting loss $53m lower at $28.3m produced deficit down almost a half from $259.7m to $133.1m as remedial action proved increasingly effective . |
| 19 | I I obviously Cornwall is a special case which we obviously as our Celtic cousins it is the only non-Anglo Saxon county in England and as a result we feel a very , very strong erm er almost a kind of Uncle erm Nephew relationship to Cornwall , whereas the Cornish are certainly not Welsh but they 're certainly not Anglo Saxon English either . |
| 20 | Her use of the plural was almost a kind of challenge . |
| 21 | Many people 's experience of parents ' evenings seems to be unsatisfactory with parents attending through almost a sense of obligation and duty rather than that of pleasure . |
| 22 | Anybody who swears allegiance to United must share the same sense of dismay at what has happened , and what is still going on — for me , it 's almost a sense of revulsion . |
| 23 | Almost a sense of loss ; a tiny death . |
| 24 | Minkowski worked in a vigorous school of mathematicians whose traditions stretched back almost a century to Carl Gauss . |
| 25 | Reminiscing recently with his old friend Jimmy Scullion , the father of World champion Andy Scullion , the two men have almost a century of drumming knowledge between them . |
| 26 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 27 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 28 | For example , it is almost a requirement for publication in some academic journals that diagrams ( and high-quality diagrams at that ) be included ; in other disciplines , diagrams are simply unacceptable . |
| 29 | The major setback to profits came in Sears ' footwear division , about 40 per cent of total profits , where the trading surplus fell by almost a quarter to £31.6m . |
| 30 | ALMOST a quarter of seven-year-olds still can not read , education tests showed yesterday — a year after the nation was shocked by similar figures . |