Sentence examples for was almost great from inspiring English sources
My turbot was almost great, being perfectly braised, encrusted with peanut and pistachio, and served with a crunchy medley of unseasonal vegetables, but the sauce was slightly oversalted.
Andy was almost great, giving up two hits in seven innings — the first a home run in the sixth by the rookie San Francisco shortstop Ehire Adrianza, and the other a double in the eighth by Pablo Sandoval, which shortly became the winning run — Andy had gone, with a final hat wave — in the Yanks' excruciating 2-1 defeat.
And there was almost greater comfort for the home fans on 32 minutes, when the ball broke to Commons at the edge of the box, but his shot flew a yard wide.
In contrast, the response to 14-nm nanoparticles + LPS was almost greater than the sum of the individual responses, but that to 56-nm nanoparticles + LPS was not.
A few are almost great, but something about them just doesn't sing.
Hell, it's almost great — but then it falls from grace.
The test results show that CMRR of the hybrid is almost greater than 10 dB in the wavelength from 1530 to 1565 nm.
"I think his joy would be almost greater if, in doing a deal with National, he could make them jump through a whole lot of hoops, and give up a whole lot of stuff.
A match so dramatic that the fear of losing is almost greater than the joy of winning.
In scenario 3, the average numbers of hops of CRTQ and EEUC-Q are almost greater than FILA and HEAR-Q, and the average dissipated energies of CRTQ and EEUC-Q are almost less than FILA and HEAR-Q.
