Example sentences of "almost anything [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What young mothers suffer from more than almost anything else is having constant responsibility for their children . |
| 2 | More time in life is wasted by feeling guilty than almost anything else . |
| 3 | Bureaucracy and red tape make him angrier than almost anything else . |
| 4 | Even the ordinary infantrymen managed to look exotic on ceremonial parade , though the baggy scarlet trousers of the Zouaves tended to make almost anything else look dull . |
| 5 | Perhaps the greatest achievements of Haussmann in his transformation of the city were the least visible , for the provision of sewers , gas , and water probably did more to enhance the city 's life than almost anything else . |
| 6 | This causes antagonism towards you faster than almost anything else . |
| 7 | If visiting or entertaining friends is difficult , this is the first and most important problem to be tackled , because maintaining ( or restoring ) this particular activity will do more than almost anything else to keep life in balance . |
| 8 | I 've written about this before and I expect I 'll write about it again , because I get more frustrated knitters questioning me about this than almost anything else . |
| 9 | The nine state governors of the Unity party of Nigeria ( UPN ) , the Great Nigeria people 's party ( GNPP ) and the people 's Redemption party ( PRP ) have nonetheless complained more vigorously about Federal policy towards the mass media than about almost anything else . |
| 10 | This practice , common in America and spreading to Europe , has had a more dramatic effect on corporate attitudes to waste management than almost anything else . |
| 11 | Both animals eat fish , yes , but mink eat almost anything else as well . |
| 12 | He was full of minor nervous habits : an eye-twitch , a frequent snapping of the thumbs and fingers when reading or in conversation , a flicking of the tongue before starting a speech , and , in a rather different category , an addiction to putting objects , particularly books , but matches , pipes , paper knives and almost anything else as well , to his nostrils and audibly sniffing at them . |
| 13 | CIA International managing director Mike Morris says : ‘ There are more politics involved [ in creating a pan-European deal ] than in almost anything else you can mention . |
| 14 | It 's a question of who decides at this point in time with the government that 's making the decision that the workers in this country have to accept lower standards in almost anything not just wages and terms of conditions , now safety standards . |
| 15 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 16 | Today we 'll be talking about all those guarantees that you 've seen when you bought your car and when you bought your refrigerator and when you 've bought almost anything nowadays , because people are being spoiled for choice on guarantees it seems . |