Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The posolskii prikaz ( department of embassies ) , founded in 1549 , had by the end of the sixteenth century become a substantial organisation employing almost a score of clerks . |
| 4 | The problem is that there 's little to offer in between ; high street quality seems almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 5 | Press interviews with the rugger-buggers are almost a contradiction in terms — even the official , collective , post-match post-mortems after home internationals , down in the bowels of Twickenham or Cardiff , say . |
| 6 | Press interviews with the rugger-buggers are almost a contradiction in terms — even the official , collective , post-match post-mortems after home internationals , down in the bowels of Twickenham or Cardiff , say . |
| 7 | BY petrol engine standards , a small diesel is almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 8 | At present an ethology of cognition is almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 9 | It meant that the keynote had to be informality and so the idea of a planned suburbia was almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 10 | On the contrary , sport was a characteristic , almost a birthright of Britons everywhere . |
| 11 | We are faced with almost a month of lies , halftruths , gossip , innuendo and invective from the two main parties . |
| 12 | Not only had he paid out money , some of it his own , but he had forgone almost a month of lunches with Mrs Tobias in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ . |