Example sentences of "at almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult enough now to find any first or second round matches of any consequence in the women 's singles at almost any tournament , especially the Grand Slams . |
| 2 | The editor of The Criterion , from 1923 and more insistently from 1926 , revealed himself as a writer with indeed a message , of a very bleak and uncompromising sort , affronting at almost every point the suppositions of secular liberalism . |
| 3 | The tourism industry , Australia 's biggest foreign currency earner , is losing A$35m a day from the dispute , which would put its losses so far at almost A$1.5bn . |
| 4 | But the pickings could be huge : the audience for RAI 's recorded Italian Sunday football in the United States and Canada may be as high as 50 million , while down in Latin America they hunger for footage of Maradona at almost any price . |
| 5 | BELGRADE ( Reuter ) — The Yugoslav Prime Minister , Ante Markovic , leaving behind an economic crisis with inflation running at almost 1,200 per cent , flew to the US to ask for $1bn to back up his reform programme . |
| 6 | The most common introduction to the sport is through sailing courses run at almost 500 RYA-recognised centres around the UK . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher is also out of sympathy with thy previous Conservative leaders ' looking for ‘ deals ’ with the major interests , conciliating the trade unions , and concerned to be ‘ good Europeans ’ at almost any cost . |
| 8 | The steering is light — although at almost four turns lock-to-lock , wheel-twirling can be a chore in town . |
| 9 | They have no rights in the Palace at all and are , at almost every opportunity , shunned by MPs who mistakenly believe that the European Parliament ( and not the Council ) is their natural adversary . |
| 10 | Turnover was 12 per cent higher at £36.3million , showing profit margins at almost 19 per cent . |
| 11 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 12 | Growth at almost any cost has always been the answer . |
| 13 | WORKERS at almost half the American plants run by General Motors ( GM ) , Ford and Chrysler are getting an unexpectedly long holiday . |
| 14 | The annual rate of inflation is running at almost 13% . |
| 15 | While consumer-loan interest rates fell by six percentage points in the decade , those on bank-affiliated credit-card balances stood pat at almost 20% . |
| 16 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 17 | Inevitably , he bowled relentlessly on , never looked like getting anywhere , and the last four wickets put on 183 as Marshall , Harper and Holding enjoyed themselves at almost five an over . |
| 18 | The triumphant tour of England in 1950 saw Worrell way out on top of the averages , scoring 539 runs in four matches at almost 90 , and making his highest Test score of 261 at Nottingham . |
| 19 | When I wake up , at almost half past eight , I try to picture Agnes . |
| 20 | In fact my majority was healthy enough at almost 19,000 . |
| 21 | In the Jacob stories there is no explicit complaint , despite the fact that the brothers are twins , born at almost the same moment , and so reveal the unfairness of the privileges particularly clearly . |
| 22 | Dill is one of those herbs which can be sown outdoors at almost any time during the growing season , from spring until August . |
| 23 | Nor did the cheering cease when the runners got down to business and the three-mile race commenced , for at almost every fence Arkle and Mill House produced leaps which drew from the spectators whoops of appreciation . |
| 24 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |
| 25 | It may be at the time that they hear the person is going to die ; it may be when they suddenly recognize that the person has become very ill ; it can be at almost any stage when the threat of loss comes into their mind . |
| 26 | At almost any cost Casey wanted him back , but this was almost a private , rather than a public , duty . |
| 27 | At almost every level , attitudes to Karajan have been riddled with paradox and inconsistency . |
| 28 | The human eye can detect unexpected movement at almost 90° to its central visual ray , or CVR . |
| 29 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 30 | Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period . |