Example sentences of "[noun pl] to almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high . |
| 2 | Over Dinsdale for nets to almost 40 lb and Croft for swimfeeder nets to 16 lb . |
| 3 | When the responses to almost 20,000 questions had been put through VGA 's computer , they revealed that men and women executives have more talents in common than most people imagine — and some considerable managerial differences too . |
| 4 | The deal would have taken Jones 's transfers to almost £3 million , spanning four moves with the two London clubs , Leeds and Sheffield United . |
| 5 | You can , you know I can I can get two balls to almost roll from corner to corner by doing |
| 6 | The number of women drinking low or no-alcohol lager has doubled in four years to almost 40 per cent , a survey shows . |
| 7 | The near £5m annual budget was in surplus for the year by more than £139,000 swelled by a £53,000 surplus from previous years to almost £193,000 . |
| 8 | There may be a tendency to overdo it and attach sounds to almost everything , however , which can fray the temper of even the most patient colleague after a while . |
| 9 | There may be a tendency to overdo it and attach sounds to almost everything , however , which can fray the temper of even the most patient colleague after a while . |
| 10 | Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of an overweight person contracting one of these conditions to almost the same level as a non-overweight person . |
| 11 | They gave such lyrical names to almost every place they seized , thus perpetuating their memory for ever . |
| 12 | Once poison has temporarily reduced rat populations to almost zero , predation by barn owls can slow the recovery . |
| 13 | But the reasons for this are instructive because they illustrate difficulties that arise in analyzing attitudes to almost any new scientific theory . |
| 14 | In some senses a mining community such as Gelsenkirchen ( in Germany ) , which grew from 3,500 inhabitants to almost 96,000 in half a lifetime ( 1858–95 ) , was a ‘ New World ’ comparable to Buenos Aires or the Pennsylvanian industrial centres . |
| 15 | The largest falcon of the region , resembling a large stout Peregrine ( p. 93 ) in outline , though with slightly blunter wings with broader bases , and longer tail , but extremely variable in plumage , from almost white with a few dark flecks to almost completely dark grey ; most frequent form is like rather pale Peregrine , but lacking the dark moustachial streak . |
| 16 | Former Arrowe Park assistant Mark Roe completed his most successful season on the Volvo European Tour when joint 18th place in last weekend 's Volvo Masters in Spain took his winnings to almost £210,000 and 18th place in the final Order of Merit . |
| 17 | The Australian Democrats increased their vote by some 2 percentage points to around 5.5 per cent without winning a seat , while the vote for the independent candidates rose by 0.7 points to almost 11 per cent . |
| 18 | But if the resources of husband and wife were not to be aggregated , and each had a right to claim benefit independently , the Commission would be paying allowances to almost all wives who are unable to work or have the care of children regardless of the husband 's income . |
| 19 | When looking at geographic geomorphology in the 1980s Graf , Trimble , Toy and Costa , ( 1980 ) observed that the human factor in geomorphology received insufficient attention until the late 1960s but that researchers are now recognizing the effect of human activity in many processes ranging from relatively minor disturbances to almost complete control . |
| 20 | They adopted widely divergent approaches to almost every issue — from tariffs and taxation to the affairs of the nobility , the peasantry , and the working class . |