Example sentences of "[noun] almost a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Edwin Montagu by contrast , although indisputably by birth a member of la grande juiverie , was by inclination almost a professional non-Jew . |
| 32 | However , the instruction manual , though extremely comprehensive , is written in that awful Americanese which makes similar pamphlets printed in Japan almost a pleasure to read ! |
| 33 | More than forty Russian orphans who came to Britain almost a year ago are preparing to go home . |
| 34 | More than forty Russian orphans who came to Britain almost a year ago are preparing to go home . |
| 35 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 36 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 37 | I talked to Whittaker almost a year to the day after Nelson Mandela had been released from his Cape prison . |
| 38 | It is noted here because it indicates the increasing dissatisfaction of many Edwardian novelists with the high Victorian ideal of the exclusive ‘ home ’ , despite ( or because of ) the fact that in that period , as Walter Crane observed , ‘ the beautifying of houses , to those to whom it is possible , has become in some cases almost a religion ’ . |
| 39 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 40 | PRICELESS antique Chinese government seals were discovered by police almost a year after they were stolen . |
| 41 | In France the later head of the foreign ministry archives , the comte d'Hauterive , set up in 1800 a school for this purpose which , like its predecessor almost a century earlier , stressed heavily the study and analysis of diplomatic documents . |
| 42 | Developers Lakewoods got the go-ahead almost a year ago but delayed starting work because of the recession . |
| 43 | The Manchester outrage is a considerable escalation from the terrorists ' last attempt to place bombs in the city almost a year ago to the day . |
| 44 | I looked down and saw a giant freshwater prawn almost a foot long . |
| 45 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 46 | The path from the back of the Rectory to the church , though legally a public bridle path , was in fact almost a private drive used by the Rector and occasionally by riders cutting across to the Broad . |
| 47 | Splendid examples are a youth with a discus and a bearded boxer , his hand bound with thongs , the face almost a portrait as we understand the term . |
| 48 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in Leicester almost a third of all women workers and almost 20 per cent . |
| 49 | There have been some important developments since the Bill was last debated in the House almost a year ago . |
| 50 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |