Sentence examples for has almost won from inspiring English sources

It has almost won, but not quite.

So Ed has almost won me over for now.

At any rate, it seems that she has almost won Mrs Wynen's vote.

In their own country, Barcelona has almost won the league title before Christmas, and the club has broken the record for the best start to any year — despite this being the first season under a new coach, after Pep Guardiola handed over the responsibilities to his deputy, Tito Vilanova.

I've seen plenty of guitar apps in my lifetime – enough for two lifetimes, in fact – but JamStar, an app by an Israeli programming house, has almost won my heart.

Nellie cried for the respectability she had almost won.

Terry Griffiths, another former world champion, has said: "The worst time is when you've almost won.

Kevin A. Harrigan, a research associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has examined how electronic machines cause players to think that they've almost won — when they haven't.

"We were pretty tired after losing for the third time, but we had almost won that game, so we were all pumped up to win one before we left.

Michelangelo Signorile, whose book "It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality" was published last month, is urging the gay-rights movement to avoid what he calls "victory blindness," or "the dangerous illusion that we've almost won".

Rallying a small crowd of around 20 activists in the back room of the pub, Paul Oakden, a party organiser, said Ukip had almost won in nearby Heywood and Middleton last year, where Bickley helped reduce a Labour majority of almost 6,000 to 611.