Sentence examples for had almost passed from inspiring English sources

Our turn had almost passed, and now this.

The decade of loss had almost passed, and I was content to be uprooted, in space, alone.

In 1911, after dissolution of the Standard Oil empire, eight companies retained "Standard Oil" in their names, but by the late 20th century the name had almost passed into history.

The patient said he could not understand how the campaign season had almost passed without word getting out that George W. Bush had been convicted of drunken driving in 1976, a fact to which he could attest because he had been getting arraigned for the same thing at the same time.

Now that the three years have almost passed, the question is what Iraqis will choose to do next.

So does this mean that the Machiavellian Moment has almost passed, that NiccolRated R's famous smile may soon turn into a frown?

It is a point made so often that it has almost passed into cliche but to hear Mats Hummels, for example, talk at length post-match in his second language about how German players deal with pressure and criticism is to realise just how far England's have to go.

Well, 100 days have almost passed, and it's almost time for those changes to go into effect.

Tents, tables with food, beer it could've almost passed for a regular tailgate if it weren't for the fact that everyone was wearing lab coats and had duct tape over their selfie cameras.

Almost to the point where the patient has almost passed away when the decision [to commence palliative care] is made" [3:13].

She had almost been passed over after complaining that the traditional production was boring.