Sentence examples for almost the sum from inspiring English sources

Until then, authors had considered fighting to be almost the sum total of war; now, however, it began to be regarded as merely one part of war.

Over time, Graham's work has become freer and freer of concrete images, flat declarative statements constituting almost the sum of her poetry, unlike the mere cute accessories they are for poets like Olds, Glück, Levine, and others straining for cheap epiphanies.

The antagonistic effect of the combination was almost the sum of individual effects).

The number of cancer cases in our study was almost the sum of cases in three earlier cohort studies (Kallen et al, 1993; Vesterinen et al, 1993; Turner et al, 2005).

In contrast to what occurred with wt Ras with a combination of Cdc25 and O2– (Table 1), the values of the rate constant and the span of the Vav2 DPC/O2 -mediated wt Rac1 GDPC/O2 -mediatedwtRac1lmost the sum of the values of the rate constant and the span of the Vav2 DPC-mediated wt Rac1 GDP dissociation plus the O2–-mediated werealmost dissociathen (Table 3).

Universal's operating income (net before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) should exceed $700 million this year, almost double the sum in 1995; PolyGram's operating income could come in at $1 billion, almost double the level when Seagram bought it in 1998.

The business advisory firm Deloitte said the total was almost double the sum spent by clubs in Spain's La Liga this summer.

The report by the Independent Budget Office said that antiterrorism programs were helping to push total police overtime to $346 million this year, almost twice the sum originally budgeted.

But impressed that the second highest percentage of voters prefer him ("Wow! 27.3% is almost exactly the sum of my 9-9-9 plan"), Cain might well argue that a runoff between him and Romney is appropriate.

The antagonistic effect of the combination almost equals the sum of the individual effects of Bdph and 4-AP, suggesting that the antagonistic mechanism of Bdph may be similar to that of 4-AP.

Which coincidentally enough is almost the same sum as Mr Osborne says he must save from the social security budget.