Sentence examples for almost collected from inspiring English sources

He almost collected the award as a Manchester United player.

The American-led attack on the Gnomes of Zurich has produced a backlash: a right-wing party has almost collected enough signatures to force a referendum on whether to strengthen constitutional support for financial secrecy.

And then he sets off in search of a return and almost collects it in front of goal but is crowded out by Jones, Evans and Smalling.

He almost collects these places the small manufacturies that long dotted our landscape and supported whole communities, and are now dwindling away like some endangered animal we'd all frankly rather ignore.

Washbrook drove Johnston for three runs and then pulled Lindwall for a four, almost collecting Barnes who was standing close in at short leg in the nose.

For 35 years, Mr. Mullin has almost exclusively collected French cars built between the world wars.

Not pointless, exactly but almost: Betis collected just one point from 15, scoring three and conceding 15.

It's important to note that Allen Funt and company pulled their pranks on a number of people, and almost scientifically collected a variety of reactions.

The Aldabras were once rich in guano (deposits formed from bird droppings), but it was almost all collected and sold for fertilizer in the early 1950s.

Further, data are almost never collected for the specific use of investigating these gradients, and thus interpretation of results is somewhat difficult.

Data are almost always collected at a greater level of detail than are reported in a journal article.