• The bad finish almost virtually assured that Rutgers will miss the NCAA tournament for the first time in 11 years and left the WNIT as the only option to continue playing until Stringer told tournament officials not to extend an offer.

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  • "Thirty percent of our clients tend to be men, " explained Behare Sahatqija, my esthetician, as she lowered the headrest so that I was almost prone and virtually helpless.

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  • For almost a century he was virtually unknown and only in the last two decades has he re-emerged.

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  • The Mets, who had been in existence for almost a half century, were virtually ignored in their own home.

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  • In an ideal world, the Ministry of Defence likes to keep at least two brigades, say, 10, 000 soldiers, ready to go almost anywhere for six months at virtually no notice.

    ECONOMIST: The army

  • For so long, Isinbayeva has been an overwhelming presence in women's pole vaulting, almost unbeatable and setting world records that were virtually untouchable.

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  • Well I certainly think that the release scheme which now was virtually history, it's almost complete, has not been the way to proceed.

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • Almost every piece of equipment you needed made it virtually impossible to work anywhere but the office.

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  • In rejecting the one approach, Sir Ernst was almost bound to abandon the other, for both virtually airbrush away the one paramount thing that makes painting distinctive from the other arts: that it is a visual medium.

    ECONOMIST: Look and learn

  • By the 1950s command and control had, as a way of getting almost any task done, even in civilian life, virtually no rival.

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  • Doing so, however, would be little more than a symbolic gesture, as the proposals have virtually no chance of winning the 60 votes almost certainly needed to clear the 100-member chamber.

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  • President Clinton virtually refused to see his CIA Director and almost never read the Presidential Daily Briefing prepared to ensure he was aware of emerging threats and other priority intelligence developments.

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  • Virtually no royal accounts survive for 1415, and almost no private letters.

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  • Everton's attacking efforts had been virtually non-existent, but they were back in business with almost the last kick of the opening half.

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  • Since virtually every hospital and doctor takes it, the government can exert almost total control over how care is delivered by adding regulations to the program.

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  • Today, huge volumes of data, touching almost every aspect of the world in which we live in, are available at virtually the click of a mouse.

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  • Often described as "winter blues", Rosenthal found the condition was more prevalent in northern latitudes: virtually no-one in sunny Florida was diagnosed with the condition while almost one in 10 of the population further north in New Hampshire was said to suffer from SAD.

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  • This seems to have led him to divide almost everybody into friends and foes, and to draw rigid lines between good and evil in virtually all matters, commercial as well as moral.

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  • Lady Thatcher, who stood virtually alone in her determination to fight the Argentine occupation of the Falklands, again is standing almost alone against the weight of European opinion.

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  • The spaceflight bill went virtually unmentioned on the Senate floor, but the behind-the-scenes debate continued up to almost the last minute.

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