Sentence examples for had begun almost from inspiring English sources

The trial had begun almost six months before Mr. Keith was appointed to the case.

By then he had begun almost a second career as a panelist and commentator on television news programs.

His political career had begun almost accidentally, in 1987, when a bomb planted on board a helicopter killed his elder brother, Rashid, who was then prime minister.

Enron's implosion, in 2001, was a harbinger of the current market havoc, and its ability to perpetuate a vast financial fraud was aided by a series of deregulatory decisions that had begun almost a decade earlier.

If he could have, he would have grabbed my father firmly by the wrist and held him until he was certain that he understood just how much he depended on him and how much he had begun almost to hate him for that.

Though they did not know it at the time — the idea would have seemed preposterous — the sounding of "boots and saddle" that morning marked the beginning of the end of the Indian wars in America, of fully two hundred fifty years of bloody combat that had begun almost with the first landing of the first ship on the first fatal shore in Virginia.

But the backlash has begun, almost exclusively from residents of the neighborhoods that are most popular for infill living.

The backsliding seems to have begun almost immediately, with new reports of attacks by Chinese hackers in the United States.

The popularity of the buildings has created what is surely the most bizarre and wonderful thing about Las Vegas right now: the way in which it has begun, almost inadvertently, to function like a real city.

By 2004, Britons had begun drinking almost three times as much alcohol as they had in the 1950s (a period cited as "Peak Booze"), while the UK frequently comes out top in surveys of the world's heaviest drinkers.

And so began Friday morning's lesson, much like many others had begun for almost six years: a question prompted an answer that led to other questions, other subjects, their flow uninterrupted.