Sentence examples for almost failed to from inspiring English sources

Curly Smart, a popular driver & trainer, almost failed to appear in the race.

John Franco, who now has a C stitched to his jersey, almost failed to perform them both.

Her first novel almost failed to find a publisher because, "it did not fit into any niche".

Never mind that they almost failed to make it: Citigroup's 200th birthday is being widely trumpeted; UBS is marking its 150th year.

Two years ago, the legislation reauthorising OPIC almost failed to pass, as conservative Republicans worried about what they saw as government meddling in private business.

The meetings in Moscow were especially precious, not only because Coe and Ovett seldom faced each other, but also because those meetings almost failed to take place.

It's so good that I almost fail to notice Jesy's horrible gold leggings.

It is a homecoming that almost fails to happen when a plummeting swan causes a minor collision.

Trembling Bells have changed direction once again – but now sound so frantic that they almost fail to do themselves justice.

On Uefa's numerical record of events he almost fails to register, a ghost player draped in his own invisibility cloak of continual peripheral motion.

This slender novel by the Italian writer Simona Vinci plunges with such stylistic quiet into forbidden territory that one almost fails to hear the barriers collapsing.