Example sentences of "almost [subord] [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group informally known as labyrinthodonts ( from their characteristic labyrinth-ridged teeth ) included some impressive animals almost as long as a man : perhaps the alligators of the time . |
| 2 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 3 | In Salisbury the station remained an elongated single-platformed structure throughout its history , with all the passenger and office facilities provided in a building almost as long as the platform itself . |
| 4 | The imposing chancel is in fact almost as long as the nave , and has four wide steps to the altar . |
| 5 | But that 's not all — Lynch plans to make his Twin Peaks movie series almost as long as the TV series with a third and possibly fourth in the pipeline . |
| 6 | ANDES staged a second major strike in 1971 which lasted almost as long as the first and received extensive popular backing . |
| 7 | They could therefore claim a good deal of genuine popular backing ; and their power , or at least their powers of obstruction , survived almost as long as the monarchy itself . |