Sentence examples for almost basic from inspiring English sources

You can't have people holding diplomas yet having a lack of almost basic literacy skills.

Indeed, the fantasy of time travel seems almost basic to the human condition.

"I've felt this almost basic need to touch them, to hear them, to acknowledge them," said Stephanie Albert, who has been in contact with wives of men on the desk where her boyfriend, Juan Cisneros, worked at Cantor.

And, adds David Richardson, a lichenologist at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada, "What [the finding] says is that the phenomenon of symbiosis... is almost basic to life".

Villa were bright in the first half but such is their lack of experience and almost basic common football sense that one blow brings them to their knees.

Unlike the latter's clean shaven and designer-suited appearance, Vince dresses in jeans and a T-shirt, and occupies a paired-down, almost basic, office in Stroud, deep in the English countryside.

And banks jumped into the housing bubble that resulted, almost ignoring the most basic lending safeguards from such "free" money, such as verifying income and assets of the borrowers that Fannie and Freddie required.

Most respondents (51.9 %) live in households were (almost) all basic amenities were present, only 12.9%% of them lived in a household where only few of the basic amenities were present.

"That's almost so basic that it's easy to miss the forest for the trees".

Almost as basic a truth is that we seem incapable of believing it.

The Emersons made this music sound almost shocking a basic harmonic contrast became a clash of cultures.