Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] almost a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the largest increase is recorded in the North , where the number of home-owners has risen almost a third from 48pc in 1981 , to 61pc in 1991 . |
| 2 | ‘ So my Berlioz connection was founded on love , but fate has had almost an equal hand in it . ’ |
| 3 | A fashion show has raised almost a thousand pounds for a special school for handicapped children . |
| 4 | I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ . |
| 5 | It is a question that needs to be asked now that , in theoretical terms , the affirmation of difference has become almost a new orthodoxy . |
| 6 | Reproduced in calendars , on birthday cards , and in coffee-table books , this painting has become almost a ritualized symbol of the reverence which English people have for their countryside . |
| 7 | In America today modernity as a term synonymous with the problems of life in the advanced societies has become almost a cliche . |
| 8 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
| 9 | As Zoe Muir found out Jackie Berwick has lost almost a stone in three and a half weeks . |