Example sentences of "from almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public . |
| 2 | They came from almost every variety of home , from one grandson of a duke to the son of someone who survived on a small-holding . |
| 3 | The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football . |
| 4 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 5 | Public sector support for provincial services is being reduced by £77million to £345 million by 1992/93 , from almost £550 million in 1985/86 . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , most people still find it harder to get compensation from drug firms for errant products than from almost any other type of manufacturer . |
| 7 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 8 | It stems , therefore , from something primitive and far removed from almost everything else in the Old Testament , with the exception of an even stranger tale in Exodus 4.24–6 . |
| 9 | The Roman empire saw the increasing debasement of its staple silver coin : from almost pure silver in the early first century AD it sank to only 50 per cent fine by about AD200 and to only about 1–2 per cent by AD270 . |
| 10 | Her appeal to all generations was now something that separated her from almost any other pop star of her generation . |
| 11 | When you tip the seed from the packet it is hard to believe that from almost every one a plant will arise , so do not let them fall too thickly into the soil . |
| 12 | At the turn of the century , Kenneth Grahame could confidently give the water vole a leading role in The Wind in the Willows : almost everyone knew this small rodent from almost daily acquaintance . |
| 13 | ‘ Britain now holds almost all the top military jobs in Nato , ’ said a Nato spokesman in Brussels , where the military committee was preparing for today 's talks with chiefs of staff from almost all the east European and former Soviet republics . |
| 14 | The genes of such parasites therefore stand to gain from almost exactly the same future circumstances as the genes of their host . |
| 15 | I was not a man fighting to live but I was a boxer on the ropes , praying for a miracle that would save him from almost certain defeat . |
| 16 | A recent paper in The Lancet observed that people aged over 70 are excluded from almost all clinical trials of cancer treatment , with the result that elderly patients ‘ receive either untested treatments , inadequate treatments , or even none at all , at the whim of their clinician . ’ |
| 17 | The colours of the Jersey are far more varied than those of most European breeds and the full range spreads from almost black to the palest greys and biscuits , with all kinds of fawns , browns , chestnuts , golds and smokes in between , sometimes broken with white , sometimes broadly whole-coloured but never solid : there is shading over the body so that the tones are generally darker on face , neck and shoulders ( especially in bulls ) , much darker on the front of the forelegs and much paler on the underparts in the typical manner of wild creatures such as deer . |
| 18 | Between 1982/83 and 1986/87 , in government schools the success rate dropped from almost 80 per cent to 70 per cent ; in private and community schools from 40 to 30 per cent ; and in technical education from 60 to 55 per cent . |
| 19 | Between 1974 and 1979 , Liverpool 's capital programme was reduced from almost £60 million to less than £40 million . |
| 20 | This is not to say that some good pieces of research do not emerge from almost accidental findings of research workers . |
| 21 | From almost every other walk of life a way could be found to the city patriciate ; and even the Jew could come there if he would submit to conversion . |
| 22 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 23 | The Pinot Noir in the grands crus has dropped from almost 65 to 45% , while the difference in the premiers crus is less than 3% . |
| 24 | A wide range of servos are available from almost any model shop . |
| 25 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 26 | ‘ I expected to curry quite a lot of disfavour from almost everybody , ’ he says . |
| 27 | The party was formed at a founding congress in November 1991 : 525 delegates , from almost all the regions and larger towns of Russia , attended the congress . |
| 28 | With their Chargecards you can dial out from almost any phone at the same cost as using a phone box , the cost of the calls being added to your normal bill . |
| 29 | That compares to Vauxhall Carlton sales of 15,500 against 16,000 last year while Ford Granada sales have collapsed to barely 15,000 from almost 24,000 . |
| 30 | Staffing was cut drastically , from almost 280,000 to little more than 200,000 . |