Sentence examples for almost as lengthy from inspiring English sources

The list of reasons for the failures is almost as lengthy as the list of problems officials cite with the police force.

They practiced almost as individual units and huddled together for lengthy miniconferences.

By and large, the fans here were as gracious as usual, allowing most vociferous Yankees fans their space, pointing out some of the field litterers to security officers, and when O'Neill smacked his 2,000th career hit in the ninth inning, they gave him a lengthy and warm ovation, almost as if to make up for the troublemakers in their midst.

An effective full employment program would cost more than half a trillion dollars annually, making it almost as large as Medicaid, according to a lengthy paper published in March by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, an influential liberal think tank.

Canadians have long taken for granted that crossing the lengthy, substantially unguarded American border is an act almost as automatic as traveling from Quebec to Ontario.

Little more than a showcase for Mr. Quint — whose acting is almost as toneless as his playing is sublime — this trite, sunny drama pins lengthy musical interludes onto the flimsiest of narratives and hopes for the best.

Almost as preposterous as the plot, which turns on a fact about Eva that is incredible and demands lengthy explanation if we're to suspend our disbelief.

almost as an investigator".

It's almost as powerful.

Harvard is almost as generous.

April was almost as bad.