Example sentences of "[adj] almost [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do what comes naturally you will be wrong almost every time . |
| 2 | Exley , at 30 almost a veteran , but who had had an impressive run in this year 's championships , vowed : ‘ I 'll be back next year and if I meet Eric I 'll beat him . ’ |
| 3 | Hundreds of machines , some almost a century old were spruced up and dusted down yesterday for one of the biggest events in the biking calendar . |
| 4 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 5 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 6 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 7 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 8 | A few years later this latest manor house was built , and in 1928 almost the first double glazing ever seen in England was installed to combat the bitterly cold winds . |
| 9 | In 1051 almost the entire Godwin family was exiled , and Edward sent Ealdred with troops to intercept Earl Harold Godwinsson [ q.v. ] as he fled , but , according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , ‘ they could not or would not . ’ |
| 10 | By the end of 1987 , they were playing live almost every other night , but they were still getting their share of badly organised gigs or ones that flopped for other reason , usually not connected with the band . |
| 11 | Within the SenFed almost every one of those million or so planets is vying with at least some others — for influence , for position , for trade and aid and income . |
| 12 | Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up ! |
| 13 | However , it 's surprising that in on representative government utilitarianism barely surfaces and that almost no mention at all is made of utility apart from in a very general way . |
| 14 | We 've had that 's that 's the observation I was gon na make , that 's er just so happens that that almost the amount that 's gon na be turned round to me the following week that that |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been asleep almost an hour . |
| 16 | But it will render precise almost every judgment on run-outs , and that alone would clear away a lot of dirt . |
| 17 | New transmitters in Sutton Coldfield ( 1949 ) , Holme Moss , near Huddersfield ( 1951 ) , Kirk O'Shotts ( 1952 ) and Wenvoe soon extended the service to a potential 36 million , and by 1956 almost the whole population was included . |
| 18 | He had been Dean of Chichester since 1567 , during which time he had succeeded in alienating almost the entire chapter by his forthright attacks on venality , pluralism and spiritual laxity . |
| 19 | Ever since the late 1950s almost every AIB team sent out to investigate a fatal accident has been accompanied by at least one RAF pathologist . |