Example sentences of "[vb past] almost a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yusupov had prepared an unusual opening variation : taking only six minutes over the first 14 moves , while Karpov used almost an hour . |
| 2 | Each Dalek weighed almost a hundredweight , stood 4′ 8″ high and cost £120 . |
| 3 | On another occasion , a cow made a mad dash from a herd being driven along Crane Bridge Road , managed to dive onto the slope leading to the old ford by the bridge , took off in the Harnham direction and swam almost a mile before the drovers caught up with her . |
| 4 | Intel profits last year rose almost a third to $819 million after tax on sales of $4.78 billion , up a fifth on 1990 . |
| 5 | With barely 800 inhabitants , Little Walsingham comprised almost a quarter of the population and a clear two-fifths of the value of North Greenhoe hundred , Norfolk ( Table 2.9 ) : four men in the £100 class shared 30 per cent of the town 's wealth , and ten at £40 — £99 owned a further 35 per cent . |
| 6 | By 1524 , thirty-eight Frenchmen comprised almost a third of the taxpayers and well over half the labourers of Hartfield hundred . |
| 7 | By the end of 1981 , she seemed almost a Prime Minister at bay . |
| 8 | Sated with a whole morning of freedom and indulgence , work seemed almost a pleasure , the more so in that my students were in the same post-prandial daze as myself All serious business was dispatched in the morning . |
| 9 | It had always seemed such an impossible dream , but with Louise talking about it so matter-of-factly it seemed almost a fait accompli . |
| 10 | Yet in dark silhouette she seemed almost a Stealer . |
| 11 | Even in Britain it seemed almost a law of politics under George II and George III that the Prince of Wales should act as a rallying-point for all those who hoped to benefit from a change of ruler . |
| 12 | It seemed almost a mockery , a travesty of what should have been . |
| 13 | The peace and serenity of the green countryside and sandy dunes seemed almost a lifetime away from her present existence — as did the night she had spent in Ross 's arms . |
| 14 | Caroline had never grown used to it but she had learned to ignore it , even here , in Italy , where admiring a woman openly seemed almost a national pastime . |
| 15 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 16 | DES Circular 8/83 requested information on these efforts and preliminary results reported in Better Schools showed almost a complete reversal of the situation found in the first survey . |
| 17 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
| 18 | But rumours of war were being sounded by 1539 and in 1542 there began almost a decade of fighting . |
| 19 | Speaking before the meeting — which began almost an hour late after the Irish party 's flight from Dublin was delayed — Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew spoke of the concern , felt in both London and Dublin , about the upsurge in violence . |
| 20 | A MENTALLY handicapped man who spent almost a month in Barlinnie Prison because there was nowhere else for him to go is to be transferred to the Royal National Hospital in Larbert today . |
| 21 | She spent almost an hour in the room with Anna . |
| 22 | The girls managed to paddle themselves to the shore , but the boys spent almost an hour before being rescued . |
| 23 | The girls managed to paddle themselves to shore but the boys spent almost an hour before being rescued . |
| 24 | The storm clouds gathering over Leeds City broke almost a year after the end of the First World War . |
| 25 | Some schools had no unauthorised absentees in either June or November , while a few schools recorded almost a third of the pupil roll as unauthorised absentees in June . |
| 26 | Also standing is Green Mike Woodin who grabbed almost a quarter of the vote in last year 's council elections . |
| 27 | Kakoo 's life spanned almost a century and her wonderful memory made everything so vivid for all the generations who knew her . |
| 28 | So the Civil War saw the termination of this remarkable , though ill-fortuned , north-western fascicule of one of England 's first joint-stock industrial enterprises , which spanned almost a century . |
| 29 | Her greatest fan — her husband — died almost a year ago and the work has helped her cope . |
| 30 | These six streets formed almost a straight line , but from the medieval stone bridge , still having the old ford on the Fisherton side , the road curved to the Iron Bridge which crossed one of the branches of the River Avon as it flowed out from Water Lane . |