Sentence examples for and did almost from inspiring English sources

He avoided publicizing it in the Chinese news media and did almost no advertising.

But the chancellor argued that Fieldism did little for the poor and did almost nothing to redistribute wealth.

Mr. Fox frittered away the enthusiasm that accompanied his historic election and did almost nothing to reform the structures of government left behind by the PRI.

"They built a tremendous machine over the years and slayed giants and did almost all the right things," said Sy Jacobs, a former banking analyst and founder of Jam Equity Partners, a New York investment fund.

An unusually bold stand by doctors at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York has forced a big drug company to reduce the cost of an overpriced drug for treating colorectal cancer that was no better than a cheaper competitor and did almost nothing to extend a patient's life.

Healthy-looking children from the second village, he found, had as much cyanide in their blood as those with physical symptoms, and did almost as badly as their visibly symptomatic confrères on mental tests that the children of the first village aced.One solution to the konzo problem is to grow a variety of the crop called sweet cassava that is cyanide-free.

Who could possibly play 20 seasons in the N.H.L. and do almost nothing wrong?

Instead, his work is unpredictable, colourful and done almost entirely in heavily worked oil paint.

They are often nude and do almost nothing: they simply stand and stare.

This "dose-response" relationship is apparent as soon as you get off the couch and do almost anything.

Fearn took some convincing to appear on stage and do almost nothing while Williamson ranted and strutted.