Example sentences of "at almost the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Total capital expenditure , £852m in the 12 months to February , will be maintained at almost the same level in the current period . |
| 4 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 5 | This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's . |
| 6 | On 11th February , 1859 , Tite , at almost the earliest opportunity he had in Parliament after Scott 's appointment , asked Manners why Banks and Barry had been passed over , as Scott 's design was inconvenient and expensive and Scott was ‘ as competent to erect an Italian building , as a Gothic one ’ . |
| 7 | Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner . |
| 8 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 9 | At almost the same time , Rossmayne 's blinding rage lifted long enough for him to see what sort of woman had resisted him so resolutely . |
| 10 | I remember two very special expeditions to the top of the Heath — not very far from our house which stood at almost the height of the cross on St Paul 's Cathedral , a fact that was emblazoned on the house above us in the East Heath Road . |
| 11 | Throughout the decade the numbers in the School were maintained at almost the maximum level ( 100 in the Upper , Grammar School and 50 in the Lower , Free School ) ; more land was bought by the Company for playgrounds and gardens ; an extra room was added to Mr. Howell 's house at a cost of 150 . |
| 12 | At the end of every clawing tack we found ourselves back at almost the same place we had started ; we began to learn the realities of life aboard a Bugis prahu . |
| 13 | The descent spiral would bring them out from the cloud at almost the exact point where the mysterious Sakkratian doctor had been located by the Cell . |
| 14 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 15 | Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time . |
| 16 | The aisled nave has four bays and the church is barrel vaulted throughout at almost the same height — there is neither triforium nor clerestory . |
| 17 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 18 | At almost the same time ( 1516 ) , Thomas More , in his Utopia , wrote the most famous of all denunciations of the evils of enclosure : |
| 19 | At almost the same time , the European Foundation for Quality Management [ EFQM ] , of which ICI is a key member , launched the European Quality Award , it is co-sponsored by the European Commission and the European Organization for quality . |