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almost

Very nearly; about 98% of something; not the same, but near to being the same. I am almost ready to go. I will be ready very soon.

almost

(= about, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but the job is (just) about done the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded we're almost finished the car all but ran her down he nearly fainted talked for nigh onto 2 hours the recording is well-nigh perfect virtually all the parties signed the contract I was near exhausted by the run most everyone agrees

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Simple sentences

Generally speaking, women live longer than men by almost ten years.
Almost.
It's almost six o'clock.
It's almost over.
There was almost nothing in the room.
I've eaten almost nothing.
I get up at six almost every day.
The train was almost an hour behind time.
Almost three thousand people died.
It was almost noon by the time Tom woke up.
Tom's wallet is almost empty.
Dinner is almost ready.
It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.
Seriously though, episode 21 made me almost cry while laughing.
I'm almost done.
I'm almost finished.
Almost half the men in Great Britain regularly give chocolate to their partner, especially for their birthday.
This business plan of yours seems almost too optimistic. All I can say is I hope it's more than just wishful thinking.
The sky is clear almost every day.
He was so sad that he almost went mad.
I almost missed the train.
I was almost run over by a car.
Almost no students get full marks in Chinese classics.
Your remark amounts almost to insult.
Almost all the students like English.
It is almost impossible to learn a foreign language in a short time.
Recovery was almost impossible.

Movie subtitles

Come on, almost..
It's almost as if the clock is being wound back 600 years, to the last time China led the world.
In England, the most important commercial centre in the country was almost completely autonomous.
Ming China was the world's most sophisticated civilization by almost any measure.
And in fact, maybe it was like I could almost be a normal person, with a girl who cared about me, who was. hot.
It was almost like.
I can almost see it now.
Wow, that's almost 1 0 million square inches in this field.
It's like it was almost picked up and gone.
We have almost arrived.
Our kids are almost identical.
Almost.
That's almost as sad as a girl coming to a strange bar by herself.
Plus, you almost burned our house to the ground.
We sat there, I'd almost say, locked up in the Observatory's lecture room for a week.
Ishmael. He's almost a year old.
It almost cost the duke of Aumale his life.
You wanted to kill me and almost did.
Seems he needs a fresh start almost as much as you do.
It's been almost a year since Rie died. And what?
And he's almost better.
You know, it's almost done.
I'm almost there.
Their schedule changes almost every single day.
It looks almost new.
In the convents during the Middle Ages, fear of the Devil escalated into an almost hopeless despair.
And our brother Dave's almost a man grown.
Yeah, Black Elk tells me that it's almost certain that the Cheyennes will declare war later.
Yeah, well, I almost didn't do it.
In season two, he feels almost like he was blessed, I guess, in a way, with this power, and that he has to use his powers for good. Here we go.
ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU WANT TO ALMOST KILL THE BRIDE? ROUGHLY, YEAH. SORT OF.
ALMOST.
He almost got out again.
Yeah, it's almost like it's a mistake to have a 300-pound pig in your apartment.
Nurse Crane assures me she's never made a claim in almost 30 years of driving and no-one has ever made a claim against her.
My son Philip came careering down the corridor and almost ran you down.
The wedding planning is actually almost done.
Our wedding is gonna be a lot like. uh, almost like.

News and current affairs

For almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice - its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world.
With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.
Almost everyone agreed that the old paradigm of neoclassical economics was broken, but there was no agreement on what can replace it.
But the research is advancing fast, and it is almost certain to suggest new ways to reshape our moral intuitions, sentiments, and motivations.
And global warming's impact would reduce energy consumption for almost all nations.
Debate over Iraq dominated international diplomacy, and took up almost the entire UN agenda.
In March, a leaked Bush administration report showed that US emissions were expected to rise almost as fast over the next decade as they did during the previous decade.
Once undertaken, the West's intervention ended an almost uninterrupted civil war, and is still viewed with approval by a majority of the population.
Profits for drug traffickers downstream will be almost 20 times that amount.
The black, red, and gold German tricolor adorns the entire country as never before, but almost nowhere are there nationalist undertones.
How can growth be revived when austerity will almost surely mean a further decrease in aggregate demand, sending output and employment even lower?
And the crisis itself almost surely will spread.
Today, it is almost becoming a new global norm that neither the international committee nor the US is prepared for.
But like all his previous initiatives since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington almost five years ago now, the NME ran into trouble from the outset.
Because the Democrats in Congress have an almost religious commitment to preserving, intact, America's principal welfare programs for senior citizens, Social Security and Medicare, the legislation does not touch either of them.
The game is to use international recognition of an independent Palestinian state to pressure the US to retreat from its almost unconditional support for Israeli policy.
The break with communism and reunification of Europe is now almost two decades old.
Because Burma's generals say almost nothing in public, it is difficult to fathom why they allowed elections that elevated Thein Sein to power, or to explain their willingness to embrace dialogue with the long-suppressed opposition.
Recent events suggest one possible explanation: Burma's rulers have grown wary of China's almost smothering embrace - a result of the country's international isolation.
Almost simultaneously, Thein Sein offered even stronger signals that his was a very different Burmese administration: he freed political prisoners and invited Suu Kyi for direct talks with him.
MADRID - The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has been a hot topic of analysis for almost a year.
We agonize about the failure to halt the atrocities being committed almost daily in Syria.
But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.
But when I was born there, in 1952, the island was poorer than almost every country in Africa.
Nevertheless, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a secular state, as are almost all sub-Saharan African states.
A total of almost 1.5 million young soldiers from both North and South Korea face off against each across the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone.

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