Electronic games have almost become sports in themselves, with world championships of their own.
Louis Cardinals have almost become an afterthought in any conversations regarding Albert Pujols.
We've almost become an exit-ramp economy, with a large portion of the jobs growing further and further away from the central cores.
Servers have been down during peak playing hours every night, and customer service issues have almost become a meme on social media sites.
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It's almost become a springtime rite of passage in recent years.
Mr. Fyfe: Innovation has almost become a byproduct of that focus on people, because as you become more focused on people and personality, people become much more confident and willing to express themselves.
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Mrs Warren has spent up to 23 hours a day wearing the mask and said it had "almost become part of my clothes" and that saying goodbye to it was "almost like saying goodbye to a friend".
Our canine comrades almost always become instant best friends for life with anyone who gives them a treat or pets them on the head.
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These are amazing treatments themselves, and they have become almost routine in the developed world.
Yet dropping out of college has become almost a rite of passage for ambitious technology entrepreneurs.
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In the ferment within today's Republican Party, the gold standard has become almost the centrist position.
They become almost paralyzed with dread and fear of putting themselves in the spotlight.
Emoticons have become almost a staple part of how we communicate with each other online.
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Meanwhile, in the markets, the oil price went through the wild swings that have become almost routine.
Valuation theory has become so formalistic and abstract that it has become almost completely divorced from reality.
As efficient lighting technologies, like LEDs, go mainstream they become almost like a new source of green energy.
Now receiving a TV signal without a cable or satellite hooked up to it has become almost impossible.
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He is now almost certain to become the third Spaniard in a row to capture cycling's most famous race.
This is how a once-curable killer has, over time, become almost untreatable again.
Said another way, there are things that can happen that are so bad that almost anyone would become depressed.
Now, on the other hand, Symbian has become almost non-existent and sales of Lumia Windows Phones are on the rise.
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Today that ratio is 3.3 to 1 and is projected to become almost 2 to 1 in the near future.
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"He always described himself as a simple man - that's become almost legend, " said Mr Simpson, the Lowry's head of visual art.
The marketplace is moving so fast that it has become almost impossible to stay current and informed about everything that one should.
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Today, Christine is scheduled to have a fifth procedure to fix her ureter, which has become almost completely blocked by scar tissue.
The bill, now almost certain to become law, was due to be presented to the lower house when parliament resumed this week.
Geek has suddenly become almost chic in Hong Kong, by the way.
One woman, a book-stall manager, complains that she has become almost a slave to her middle-school daughter, who constantly pesters her for money.
Since then, holding the top two spot has become almost common - Outkast did it, then Mariah Carey, then Akon, and now T.
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