Example sentences of "[am/are] almost the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 2 | Just a T at the front they 're almost the same . |
| 3 | Chris Stoney says I 'm almost the happiest person in the world . |
| 4 | And , beyond that , we ought to see that some of the latest European music is only ‘ fascistic ’ in ways that are almost the opposite of male triumpalism . |
| 5 | There are similarities between National Socialism and Stalinism : the methods are almost the same , ’ the delegate added in an unusually frank contribution . |
| 6 | ‘ Career politicians are almost the only politicians left in the upper echelons of British politics and government , ’ observed Professor Anthony King , the loquacious professor of government at Essex University in the early eighties . |
| 7 | To the north , where Poitou borders on the Vendee , shapely clumps of trees are almost the only punctuation marks on widespreading marshy landscapes ; to the south it bubbles with little rolling hills . |
| 8 | HI-FLI and AFLI are almost the same , the only difference is that they use high-resolution , and can therefore only use up to three different colours ( rather than one ) within a char . |
| 9 | The problem is that its counts and measurements are almost the same as those of melanurum , and , as taxonomists ( at least until recently ) worked only on dead , usually discoloured preserved specimens , it was counts and measurements that were the critical factors . |
| 10 | The leaf-stalks are almost the same length as the leaf-blades . |
| 11 | The rules are almost the same as for domestic operations . |
| 12 | When at last she reached Lynne , she found a very angry confessor , and his ‘ full sharp words ’ are almost the last we hear of Margery ; we do not know what happened to her after her book was finished . |
| 13 | Close to the centre however , lines of sight on the far side are actually brighter because the stellar densities sampled are almost the same , but the lines of sight on the far side traverse a longer path of stars . |
| 14 | They are almost the only people about . |
| 15 | Tye and Sheppard also wrote ‘ Westron wynde ’ Masses and these are almost the only big English masses after Taverner 's ( if we exclude Lady Masses and the three much later examples by Byrd ) . |
| 16 | These people in the houseboat are almost the only people she knows outside her family . |
| 17 | Prince later wrote to Gould when he was in Australia , complaining that Alfred Newton had been ‘ far , far too complimentary ’ about Lear 's part in the publication , ‘ particularly when we know that most of the subscribers are of the opinion that his plates are almost the only exceptionable part of your work . ’ |
| 18 | The principles for effective policy making are almost the same as those for design . |
| 19 | Now you 'll see that there are almost the same number of slots in in each . |