Sentence examples for almost as unusual from inspiring English sources

It sounds almost as unusual as Alfred Brendel appearing with his son, Adrian, 28, a cellist.

It has a spaciousness and stamina, and an unforced sense of history, that nowadays are almost as unusual as Kwasi Boachi himself.

Even though seeing a power hitter working on bunting would be almost as unusual as seeing a left tackle working on kicking field goals, Ramppen said he did not intrude on Teixeira's routine.

He is an Afghan refugee whose family fled to Auckland when he was three, and almost as unusual for a young league star, he studied at Auckland grammar school – whose leading lights tend to become All Blacks rather than Kiwis.

Now Mr. Mitchell has his eye on choreographers at a time when creating dances in the classical ballet idiom has become almost as unusual as the sight of a black ballet dancer once was.

And that wasn't even the most energized part of this vibrant show, in which BigBang — G-Dragon, T.O.P., Seungri, Taeyang and Daesung — performed more than two dozen songs wearing almost as many outfits, and in unusual setups: before "How Gee," which could pass for an early Teddy Riley production, members of the group took to the stage on gilded Segways and lowrider bicycles.

Muldoon entertains almost as much as he enlightens, an unusual and refreshing approach.

For such a small Caribbean island Nevis is unusual in having almost as many hotels inland as on the coast, a legacy of the age of sugar.

In Australia the marsupial rat-kangaroo and the platypus seemed so unusual that Darwin thought it was almost as though two distinct Creators had been at work.

Williams is unusual among tour players in having a sister, Serena, almost as good as she is.

Apple subsidiary FileMaker is an unusual, often overlooked part of the Mac maker's empire, one that has been around almost as long as Apple Computer itself.