Sentence examples for all but full from inspiring English sources

It is arguably Germany's most successful state, with all but full employment and one of the country's best education systems.

And hotels in the city remain all but full, despite the addition of 11 new hotels with 3,387 rooms during 2000.

But finance director Patrick Butcher was focused on "the biggest sustained investment programme since Victorian times", adding: "With a million more trains and half a billion more passengers than 10 years ago, our railways are all but full".

Furthermore, dance writers began arguing that Balanchine's and Cunningham's work wasn't so abstract after all but full of feeling, and that a lot of the pure-dance talk was just to get people to look at steps again, instead of mooning all the time over the swan queen.

Slow-braised veal would sound both more appetising and accurate, yet those bones (not in fact hollow at all, but full of rich, delicious marrow) are the dish's crowning glory – anyone who sends the plate back to the kitchen without investigating their interior has missed out on the best bit.

Under an all-but-full moon on the opening evening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962, tens of thousands of Romans poured into St Peter's Square in a torchlight procession.

They are in complete contrast to the Mo Farahs, Usain Bolts and Bradley Wigginses – great athletes all, but full-time professionals, way out of reach of most of us.

Many such patients, Judge Marrero said on Friday, "were not disabled at all, but full-bodied and capable of performing other jobs or even playing sports".

The River Mole meanders in an all but full-circle loop towards the Maserati- and Bentley-lined streets of Cobham before picking up pace over brown-blue riffles, where the early-morning sun elicits a kaleidoscopic dazzle of olive, emerald, violet and purple.

In all but full-tilt conditions, this combines with the agile feel of the car to yield a fun four-seater that also makes you look bright and sexy.

That spontaneity shows; the producers may have changed aspects of the story and wrecked the movie's over-all rhythms, but Fuller's image-making has a passionate energy to match anything he had ever done in Hollywood.