Example sentences of "almost as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are probably almost as rare as engine failures , but there is one important difference . |
| 2 | The cornetto , made of wood , with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and finger-holes , is not the most docile of instrumental pets ; to play it fluently , in tune and with good ( ‘ sensuous ’ , as Benvenuto Cellini described it ) tone , is a skill that is given to few — it does not seem all that long ago when even competent cornettists were almost as rare as hen 's teeth . |
| 3 | Each year around 350 children die in household accidents in the UK — almost as many as road fatalities . |
| 4 | Gurder was in the grip of the kind of anger that is almost as good as armour . |
| 5 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 6 | The milk 's small fat globules make it highly digestible — almost as good as goat 's milk in this respect — and at least one farm is specialising in Red Poll cheese for export . |
| 7 | Many actors start in the fringe productions — in small theatres almost as intimate as television , material concentrating on highly detailed reality . |
| 8 | The Afropithecini is characterized by thickening of the enamel on the molars ( only actually measured on Heliopithecus ) , by broadening of the molars , reduction in molar cusps and ridges so that the occlusal surfaces become more flattened , hyper-robusticity of the canine , the breadth of which is almost as great as length , and enlargement of the premolars , particularly the uppers , which are 92–97% the size of the first molar . |
| 9 | Yorkshire beaches hold a substance prized almost as much as gold by ancient Romans : black pebbles of high-quality jet . |
| 10 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 11 | Sally Burgess , mime and dancer almost as much as singer , recruited all her allure and sensuality to overcome her husband 's reluctance to disclose his sinister secrets . |
| 12 | In the world of socialist realism , surrealism is almost as terrible as espionage . |
| 13 | Necromunda seemed almost as remote as childhood . |
| 14 | In both types of tenure sale was almost as frequent as change through inheritance . |
| 15 | Modern ceramics such as carbon silicon and nitrogen silicon are almost as strong as steel , and conduct far less heat . |
| 16 | And he knew , with a regret which was almost as strong as grief , that with this parting there would be no protests , no appeals , no desperate clinging to the past . |
| 17 | The colour is really pronounced , and with × 20 the star looks almost as vividly-hued as Mu Cephei . |
| 18 | With the first gusts of wind black clouds spread across the sky , growing slowly thicker until it was almost as dark as night . |
| 19 | The curtains were drawn still and on this winter day it was almost as dark as night in here . |
| 20 | Rita , who was too afraid to show her face to the cameras , divorced her husband after she was forced to take part in an arranged marriage , a practice she believes is barbaric and almost as bad as prostitution . |
| 21 | There was more than the selection of the team to the boycott of a Test match by a people to whom the game has always been almost as precious as life itself but it again highlighted the fragile nature of West Indies cricket . |
| 22 | They lie scattered amongst the hills and moorlands and skill using a compass and map is almost as important as skill using a fishing rod . |
| 23 | In the Western Isles , climatic influences are almost as important as parent material in determining soil types ( more important in the case of peat , the most widespread soil type ) , while they also exert some influence with regard to biogeography . |
| 24 | Timing can be almost as important as selection of the right host species . |
| 25 | Photographs can be almost as important as news releases . |
| 26 | She was in no hurry to reach it — contemplation was almost as satisfactory as arrival . |
| 27 | Feldspar grains therefore have a higher diagenetic potential than quartz grains , particularly to chemical change ; mechanically , they are almost as rigid as quartz grains when fresh . |
| 28 | This harmony of hand and eye and the immersion of the child in crafts which are almost as old as humankind itself , should be central to the work of every school . |
| 29 | The camp was almost as bright as day , but beyond , to front and rear , stretched the clammy darkness of the Moravian moor . |
| 30 | The fear of tinnitus , and the difficulty of sharing the fear with even one 's nearest and dearest , can be almost as upsetting as tinnitus itself . |