Sentence examples for almost eroded from inspiring English sources

He visits Clare's and notices that lichen and weather have almost eroded the final letter on the inscription that it carries: "A poet is born not made" is felicitously misread as "A poet is born not mad".

These efforts may not amount to much relative to the scale of the catastrophe, but they indicate that the earthquake has brought Nepalese society together in ways that were difficult to imagine until last week, when a polarized political climate and deep social cleavages had almost eroded the ethos we shared and the sense of belonging we had.

"Our capital was almost completely eroded," he adds.

But her defenses — like theirs, perhaps — were almost entirely eroded.

It judges officers, hundreds at a time, in an up-or-out promotion process that relies on evaluations that have been almost laughably eroded by grade inflation.

"It's a comfort blanket and within these communities it's also a way of coping with a lifestyle that is constantly under attack and almost completely eroded," she says.

He is a creature of the postwar liberal settlement, a consensus that used to exist for public investment in the arts, education and television that is now almost completely eroded.

"Co-payments Go Way Up for Drugs With High Prices" (front page, April 14) makes it clear that the notion of insurance as a for-profit venture has almost completely eroded the notion of insurance as a social good in this country.

In the last five years the value of a unique user has been almost completely eroded.

The fact that both were present at the same sites in Victoria and Tasmania and that several individuals had ANT alleles from both lineages, indicates that if regional genetic structure ever existed, it has almost completely eroded as a result of subsequent high levels of gene flow.

Condo almost completely erodes the significance of his subject, treating the religious theme with neither reverence nor scorn, merely as a frame for absurd and exuberant painting.