Example sentences of "[adj] almost the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 2 | In 1896 and again in 1897 almost the entire textile industry of St Petersburg was briefly paralysed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |