Sentence examples for almost former from inspiring English sources

The (almost former) proprietor explained that he was an antique dealer, and that his trade was to buy houses everywhere in the country, just to remove precious fireplaces and antique staircases, to feed his flourishing reselling business.

On one hand we have the almost former governor of Alaska, Sarah 'the anti-intellectual" Palin, talking dimwittedly about dead fish and passing basketballs, which aided her decision to resign and on the other there is the publisher of the Washington Post, Katharine Weymouth, selling her paper's soul for $25,000 a pop because apparently other types of creativity are out.

World War Three has literally been initiated, and the man in charge of the planet's biggest superpower is a demob-happy, Alzheimer's-ridden almost-former president with a ridiculous mixture of drugs and alcohol in his system.

Almost 50 former Wales internationals, including old friends Ryan Giggs and Mark Hughes, paid tribute to Speed in an extended half-time interval.

We wanted to involve as many people as possible and almost 500 former pupils contributed".

Almost 800 former council staff have transferred to the trust, which has a pooled £230m health and social care budget.

Since then almost every former British colony has signed up to a club that retains the British monarch as its head.

Almost 60 former Labour parliamentary candidates have also called for their leader to resign, arguing that they need someone who looks like a "credible prime minister".

Almost 90 former call centre workers for BetFred have won an average £5,300 each in redundancy pay six months after being laid off by the high street bookies.

The rebel camp in Cap Haitien has 300 people, almost entirely former Haitian Army soldiers who were disbanded by Mr. Aristide in the 1990's.

Almost all former policy advisers, their distinguishing characteristic is not so much their intelligence (there is no dearth of brain power among their Tory and Lib Dem contemporaries), but the fact that it comes with ministerial experience.