Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that in the last four years , the building cost average has jumped by almost 20 points , while the tender average has stayed virtually the same . |
| 2 | THE number of people killed or badly injured on England 's roads in 1991 has fallen by almost a third to 47,404 since the early 1980s . |
| 3 | The Pinot Noir in the grands crus has dropped from almost 65 to 45% , while the difference in the premiers crus is less than 3% . |
| 4 | The stroke works well in boats of this length but in the last six years the average length of kayak has dropped by almost a metre . |
| 5 | Mr Milburn says the number of Youth Training places has dropped by almost 200 in the last 12 months . |
| 6 | In the 1970s the total volume of transfers through these two channels was nearly 3 per cent of the social product of the more advanced republics and provinces , and even in the more difficult 1980s this ratio has amounted to almost 2½ per cent . |
| 7 | As a result of these two trends , the importance of house ownership in overall wealth holding has grown to almost 50% and a growing number of individuals are inheriting valuable house property . |
| 8 | But the broadcasts have confused voters — the number of don't-knows has risen to almost half — and produced complex movements in the far-from-reliable opinion polls , where four candidates are now closely bunched in second position behind a fast-flagging leader . |
| 9 | Unemployment has risen to almost 22% . |
| 10 | Sponsorship has risen to almost £89,000 , and the one black spot on the horizon is that arts council funding has dropped . |
| 11 | The number of men not working and not seeking a job has risen by almost half between 1971 and 1985 , from 9 per cent to 13 per cent . |
| 12 | In contrast private sector investment has risen by almost 20bn . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State surely can not justify a cut in the industry budget when , in the past year , unemployment has risen by almost 30,000 . |
| 14 | In the last 30 years the number of over-60s has risen by almost 50 per cent in the EC , from 46.5 million to 68.6 million , according to the survey by the EC 's statistical office . |
| 15 | We are now faced with a situation , therefore , in which the debate about ‘ the environment ’ has become so wide-ranging that it has impinged upon almost every aspect of contemporary industrial society . |
| 16 | Fair point , but the Leeds defence has struggled for almost a season and he still has n't put it right . |
| 17 | During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent . |
| 18 | In Middlesex , the number of schools playing rugby has increased by almost 200 per cent since October and at Dorking last weekend , more than 1,000 boys and girls took part in a mini-rugby event . |
| 19 | Divorce has increased by almost 600 per cent in 20 years . |
| 20 | In nineteen eighty seven , it cost fifty seven pound this has increased by almost twenty nine per cent in the last five years . |
| 21 | Over the past 10 years under this Government , the number in employment in the construction industry has declined by almost 250,000 . |
| 22 | Since 1979 , Newcastle 's teaching force has declined by almost 1,000 with pupil-teacher ratios rising from 25:8 to 27:8 . |
| 23 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 24 | Settled at a small , round , open-air table , Luce sipped a delicious fruit cocktail chinking with ice , and thought back to the previous evening when she 'd sat in almost this same spot and looked so eagerly for one special face . |
| 25 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 26 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 27 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 28 | Figures released by the Bureau of Statistics on Feb. 12 showed GNP growth down from 7.3 per cent in 1989 to 5.3 per cent in 1990 , the lowest for eight years ; officials blamed a collapse in the stock market ( its index having fallen by almost 80 percentage points between February and October 1990 ) , lower industrial production and falling domestic investment . |
| 29 | Admiral Hawkins , as the General has just said , is in a position of having to cope with almost impossible circumstances which , as you are in a position to know better than most , involves making almost impossible decisions . |
| 30 | But , such was her superiority over Good For The Roses and 17 others that she could have won at almost any distance . |