Example sentences of "[noun] almost a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shuddered , the words almost a whisper . |
| 2 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 3 | It is really in my mind almost a repeat of the situation we found ourselves in , in the Sudbury Western bypass some year or two ago , which strayed into Essex onto which the Essex County Council raised objection , er , one can not build a road in an adjoining County without the consent in law of the County Highway Authority on whose ground you trespass , it 's almost as simple as that and in this case with Norfolk standing presumably indicating their intention to oppose the construction for a day , we have something of a static bar situation unless we can reach agreement . |
| 4 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 5 | In most countries complicated tax laws make the use of outside advice and assistance almost a necessity . |
| 6 | Closing Over , much of which is already locked up will save the NHS almost a million pounds a year , which will be spent on more community nursing and rehabilitation . |
| 7 | He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident . |
| 8 | However , in both trials almost a third of randomised individuals were excluded from the analysis either because of loss to follow up or insufficient compliance with medication , and an analysis by intention to treat could not be reconstructed from the data presented nor from data still with the principal author ( personal communication ) . |
| 9 | The difference between us and those other publications , however , was that NSS was still on the newsstands almost a week after everyone knew that the Tories were back with an overall majority . |
| 10 | But there was still a terrified child 's face on a body almost a woman 's . |
| 11 | The distinctive moods of the rich and various landscapes which crowded near to Stowey were becoming for Coleridge almost a reflex of his own moods and thoughts — the broad uplands of the Quantock Hills a counterpoint to the speculative power of a mind ‘ habituated to the vast ’ , the lowland villages an expression for him of the loving companionship of friends and family , the hidden dell , where the voice of nature sounded in the waterfall , a retreat by turns comforting and mysterious to serve his recurrent longing for escape . |
| 12 | It was better this way ; somehow she would manage to see Dana before Roman did , and then she would leave and take up her life as it had been before she had met Roman almost a week ago . |
| 13 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 14 | Wilson , speaking at an Annual Conference almost a quarter of a century later summarised the experience of 1887–1894. " 1887 was a fairly good year . |
| 15 | Q : You had been in the business almost a decade before you appeared in a blockbuster . |
| 16 | He tried to compose himself and go over in his mind the details of what had taken place almost a month before . |
| 17 | Isfield itself seems to have shifted from its old site , up near the parish church , to a new site almost a quarter of a mile south-eastwards ; the moated manor near the church was abandoned and replaced by a new separate dwelling . |
| 18 | Quite involuntarily Lisa gasped , the sound almost a cry of anguish . |
| 19 | Shutting it down will save the National Health Service almost a million pounds a year . |
| 20 | There remains here a certain sense of uneasiness in the face of the " desert " of contemporary culture which reaches back to Dyson 's account of the " younger " universities published in Critical Quarterly almost a decade earlier . |
| 21 | Last night almost a disaster , he wrote . |
| 22 | But Ruddock is history now as Lewis attempts to become the first Briton since Bob Fitzsimmons almost a century ago to land perhaps the most cherished prize in sport . |
| 23 | My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question . |
| 24 | A judge and landlord , he throve on amateur metaphysics and early anthropology , purveying monkey theories almost a century ahead of Darwin . |
| 25 | WELLS AND WALSINGHAM ALMOST A DECADE OLD |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't let him get away with it , will you ? ’ pleaded Bella , her voice almost a whine . |
| 27 | Fiona shuddered , her voice almost a squeal as she took a series of sudden , deep in-rushing breaths , and buried her head in the hollow between Lachlan Watt 's shoulder and neck . |
| 28 | The problem of hypoxia during endoscopy in the elderly has not been addressed since the work of Rozen almost a decade ago before reliable methods of non-invasive arterial oxygen saturation measurement were readily available . |
| 29 | Try to do something that was nothing to do with the ridiculous lie he had told the headmaster almost a year ago today . |
| 30 | John Wesley was a reluctant convert to open-air preaching — " I would have thought the saving of souls almost a sin , if it had not been done in a church " — but at Bristol in 1739 he followed the example of George Whitefield and " submitted to be more vile , and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation " . |