adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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For the beneficiaries the change would be almost imperceptible: for the losers it would be a heavy blow.
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He was aware of an almost imperceptible withdrawing, more emotional than physical, a small delicate gesture of self-containment.
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The result resembles a cyclist pedalling strongly into an equally strong headwind-and wobbling dangerously as almost imperceptible progress is made.
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Nodules containing single worms are almost imperceptible , and the visible ones enclose several of the tiny worms as well as eggs and larvae.
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It sounded all right, but was there something slightly odd about the tuning, some as yet almost imperceptible new thin whine?
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An almost imperceptible wink as she passed him, a small flutter of the eyelid, showed she was learning.
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Slight variations, then, are almost imperceptible .
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A slow, almost imperceptible evolution is already taking place in the high street.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an almost imperceptible earthquake
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first it looked empty, then he saw two small vessels, just short of the horizon, their motion imperceptible .
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It leaves us ghosts altogether imperceptible .
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Male and female are very similar in appearance; the male is slightly larger, but the difference is usually imperceptible .
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Suddenly, cued by some imperceptible signal, a thousand birds rise as one thing.
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The current, usually imperceptible , was making its presence known with little shreds of foam on top of the small waves.
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The result resembles a cyclist pedalling strongly into an equally strong headwind-and wobbling dangerously as almost imperceptible progress is made.
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To the innocent listener the form must be imperceptible , and bewildering in its lightning succession of perpetually fugitive events.
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When this imperceptible metamorphosis took place, it would not be long before another marriage was arranged.