Example sentences of "a almost total [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Amnesty International , whose first permitted mission to Sri Lanka since 1982 had taken place in June , published on Sept. 10 a report criticizing the security forces for thousands of killings , and for routinely murdering suspected Tamil guerrillas " with an almost total sense of immunity " .
2 From what seems now like an almost total lack of concern when the news of the virus first reached the organization , there is currently a major emphasis within the organization and a constant campaign of re-education of both callers and volunteers .
3 Here there is an almost total lack of communication between our politicians and the mass of the British people .
4 His Education Survey 2 Drama ( 1967 ) , totally lacking in officialese , lucidly , wittily reports on a rag-bag of activities done in the name of drama and with an almost total lack of rationale behind the subject .
5 As most similar opinion polls show , there is an almost total lack of consensus , both on the unionist and nationalist sides .
6 They showed ‘ an almost total lack of awareness ’ of the roles of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons in producing ground-level ozone .
7 When in 1937 Mussolini , like Hitler , intervened in support of Franco in the Spanish Civil War , and again when he annexed Libya in October 1938 , the ordinary inhabitants of Fontanellato showed an almost total lack of interest ; principally , again , because none of them were involved .
8 The most controversial feature was the building of new fortifications at considerable cost and , as it proved , an almost total waste of money and effort .
9 The whole performance was an almost total waste of time , and was accompanied by a belief that it was necessary to demonstrate that one was working long hours in the evenings , and preferably all weekends as well .
10 Recorded in Studio No. 1 , Abbey Road , the Ravel quartet balance is characterized by an almost total absence of reverberation yet does not sound overly clinical .
11 As Gibbs ( 1975 , p. 11 ) points out , in a book marking a later resurgence of interest , the positivist eclipse of classicism led to an almost total loss of interest in deterrence in the writings of criminologists , even when they were considering ‘ policy questions pertaining to the control of crime ’ ; and he gives many examples .
12 In his earlier work , Schoenberg reached for an almost total emancipation of dissonance in ‘ atonality ’ .
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