Example sentences of "[that] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had soon learned that almost everybody has something they want to hide , and something they 're eager to share . |
| 2 | It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion . |
| 3 | A National Consumer Council report of a MORI survey of 2,005 consumers in March finds that almost a third of the population is unhappy with local authority services . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that almost every officer in the RUC , a largely Protestant force , would be opposed to the Anglo-Irish accord . |
| 5 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 6 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 7 | It took as long again for their theories to be discredited , despite the fact that almost none of their Hollywood idols would agree that they were the sole auteur of the films they made ; while the greatest weakness of their belief was that the most flawed work by one of their preferred film-makers was of more interest than a major piece by one of those they did not rate . |
| 8 | One admits to getting a little fed up with Mr Morton 's tendency to gloss over Eurotunnel 's problems , insisting that almost whatever happens it will all come right in the end . |
| 9 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 10 | The second thing was that almost never did it matter since the whips ran the show . |
| 11 | There is an area where the micro-ecology changes rapidly , so that almost with every pace there is new vegetation clinging precariously to the spare soil . |
| 12 | It was a biting cold that almost turned the pleasure of the riding into a chore , or a want for it to end . |
| 13 | It is topped by a wind-blown crust that almost holds our weight as we descend . |
| 14 | Vamplew has worked out that almost half of the players registered with First Division clubs in 1910 never played a League match . |
| 15 | But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it . |
| 16 | Maybe the Food Safety Bill will be useful damage-limitation : pre-empting public terror that almost nothing in the supermarket is safe to eat . |
| 17 | ‘ It seems inevitable that almost everybody will only get some of the shares they wanted , ’ one analyst said . |
| 18 | ‘ It seems inevitable that almost everybody will only get some of the shares they wanted , ’ one analyst said . |
| 19 | APSYCHOLOGIST whose research suggests that almost a fifth of pupils are being bullied has called for government action to tackle the problem . |
| 20 | They estimated the total population at 3000–4000 animals and discovered that almost a quarter lived around Banks Peninsula , near the South Island 's largest city , Christchurch . |
| 21 | They discovered that almost all the reported drownings of dolphins occurred between November and February , when commercial fishermen bring their nets closer to shore , following the breeding dogfish and elephant fish . |
| 22 | The outstanding voices here are Tomasz Jastrun from Poland , whose short , often sinister poems from the martial-law years , a time ‘ many centuries ago and yesterday ’ , make the reader uncomfortably aware that ‘ what terrifies in the face of death is the fact that almost nothing has happened ’ ; and Gojko Djogo from Yugoslavia , whose work , steeped in folklore , has a robust , defiant humour . |
| 23 | It was the president 's problems with the old guard that almost led to a challenge to his authority . |
| 24 | Mr Kido says that almost 70% of the company 's customers in the Tokyo area are under the age of 29 . |
| 25 | It was easy to become mesmerized by the size of the budget , but when you looked at it in detail you found that almost half went on pensions and other payments to the elderly ; that 20 per cent went to families with children ; 17 per cent went to the unemployed ; and that 13 per cent went to the sick and disabled . |
| 26 | There was the man Jinny had seen before , with the cold blue eyes that almost made her shudder as she met them again , and there was a boy . |
| 27 | A survey in the 1970s showed that almost one-third of rape charges resulted in conviction of attempted rape . |
| 28 | She had looked round once to see if her guests were all in situ and observed that almost all the chairs were occupied . |
| 29 | Ms Sheila McKechnie , director of Shelter , said : ‘ It is scandalous that almost two years after the initiative was announced , not one unit has even got the go-ahead for development . ’ |
| 30 | The object is to re-define the rapist so that almost no man is outside its scope . |