Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 2 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 3 | It was almost a rerun of experience in Germany and Austria . |
| 4 | THE scene was a Tory idyll , almost a caricature of Home Counties Britishness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His statement is almost a classic of philistinism . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He says ; The set is almost a recollection of Fairport 's career . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her use of the plural was almost a kind of challenge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Almost a sense of loss ; a tiny death . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Almost a quarter of Galway 's manufacturing workforce are being put out of a job and local business leaders say that up to 2,000 more could be made redundant by the ripple effect hitting Digital 's contractors and suppliers . |
| 19 | Almost a quarter of road accidents happen in the middle of the afternoon and experts are warning that just one drink at lunchtime can make you fall asleep at the wheel . |
| 20 | For most general practitioners a huge increase in workload and a decrease in job satisfaction will result from the closure of almost a quarter of London 's hospital beds . |
| 21 | The report shows that almost a quarter of land protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , home to much of the country 's wildlife , are suffering acidification damage . |
| 22 | In 1969 , nearly one third of Spain 's freight and almost a quarter of Britain 's still went by rail . |
| 23 | His attempt failed , but the Treaty of Bretigny was concluded which gave Edward sovereignty over Calais and the whole of Aquitaine , almost a quarter of France . |
| 24 | An initial theory is that the baobabs contracted a fungal disease after rains earlier this year ended almost a decade of drought . |
| 25 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 26 | But rumours of war were being sounded by 1539 and in 1542 there began almost a decade of fighting . |
| 27 | At the time relations between the two countries had only just been normalized [ see p. 36631 ] after almost a decade of tension . |
| 28 | His life of action is surely contrasted with the contemplative life of the shepherd and poet , who realize that Man 's past and present state ( 'what we are , and have been' ) is doomed , because it is based upon cruelty and the confining of imagination — surely this is the Cup of Stone , almost a Cap of Stone , laid upon ‘ the living well ’ . |
| 29 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 30 | Being a replacement had become almost a way of life . |