Example sentences of "almost at [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag . |
| 2 | Coleridge became almost at once a leader of Bristol 's vigorous and combative intellectual life , in which the radical sympathies of a prosperous nonconformist community confronted the conservatism of wealthy merchants and professional men . |
| 3 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 4 | Almost at once a telephone rang again . |
| 5 | Almost at once a rapid shrinkage of the arable area began . |
| 6 | Almost at once a head came round : a woman 's . |