Example sentences of "[verb] almost the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rolled to her feet and crawled out to find almost the whole population of Riverbank gathered outside . |
| 2 | In the tropics where there are only wet and dry seasons and food is available almost all year round , birds do not need to perform extensive migrations , and the breeding season can be prolonged to the point where some birds can be found nesting almost the whole year round . |
| 3 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 4 | The Pacific Plate , for instance , underlies almost the whole Pacific Ocean whereas a number of minor plates within the continents have an area of less than 1x106km 2 . |
| 5 | Cutting down on the slush and the philosophy Mann plays almost the whole film as a breathless series of attacks , escapes , sieges , fights , battles , deaths and triumphs . |
| 6 | The recommendation was that 5,000 to 6,000 of these were suitable for inclusion in the lending section of any small or middle-sized library , and that the largest libraries would be expected to include almost the whole range of British books , amounting to about 17,000 titles . |
| 7 | At times the railway altered almost the whole aspect of a town , or at least of distant views of it . |
| 8 | It measures some 205 by 30 feet and extends almost the whole width of the building . |
| 9 | They passed through the entrance hall which ran almost the whole length of the house , their feet suddenly loud on the marble tessellated floor . |