Sentence examples for being almost the last from inspiring English sources

Now she will never know if it had indeed been Miss Pettigrew she saw and she will never know if Miss Pettigrew hated her for being almost the last off the ship.

One by one, he has since dropped them: his education and finance ministers, and the chief of the anti-poverty agencies, were all replaced last year by lesser figures.The interior ministry was almost the last bastion of reform.

"Fields enwombed with hedges" is almost the last straw.

He is almost the last survivor of the tradition that once ran the church.

The Second Avenue Deli is almost the last of a breed.

Hours later, I was almost the last person left listening to the judges' reasoning.

We at Big Society Capital may be almost the last people still using the "big society" banner.

This was almost the last work in which Cunningham, then suffering from arthritis, ever performed.

She is almost the last of the vaudeville-tinged pianists who came up in the late thirties and early forties.

It proved to be almost the last chance to see those soldiers in Hong Kong: they disappeared into their barracks.

But it's almost the last thing conventional — not to say lackluster — about "Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay".