Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost a tree in fact . |
| 2 | Duckham is a much more hapless figure : rather a constrained Everyman , almost a bore in fact . |
| 3 | I said nothing to her , of course ; she was considered almost a goddess in Berlin , had a huge following . |
| 4 | Matiba , a former Cabinet minister , had left Kenya after almost a year in detention [ see p. 37603 for his arrest in July 1990 ] . |
| 5 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 6 | ‘ El-Gama'a el-Islamiya asserts that the blood of Ahmed Zaki and his men , who have avenged the blood of tens of militants spilled over almost a year in Egypt , will not dry until the blood of revenge flows , ’ the militants said in a statement . |
| 7 | Altogether Russell had served almost a year in remand and been found Not Guilty on both of his charges . |
| 8 | It was almost prophetic in its wisdom : ‘ There is really something morbid about the film as a whole — a fascination , almost a wallowing in death and suffering that represents one of the least appealing tendencies in the audience as well as the film-makers . |
| 9 | The problem is that there 's little to offer in between ; high street quality seems almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | BY petrol engine standards , a small diesel is almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 13 | At present an ethology of cognition is almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 14 | It meant that the keynote had to be informality and so the idea of a planned suburbia was almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 15 | A MENTALLY handicapped man who spent almost a month in Barlinnie Prison because there was nowhere else for him to go is to be transferred to the Royal National Hospital in Larbert today . |
| 16 | For instance , another very common language that people use is PASCAL , there 's a growing , almost a cult in favour of it . |