• No new cases have been reported in Sudan and Ethiopia for over a year and Angola has not reported any for almost as long.

    BBC: Polio case in Burkina Faso

  • The sales increase for Walgreen was the first year over year growth in monthly sales in almost a year and largest uptick in sales since August of 2011.

    FORBES: How Flu Shots Became Big Sales Booster For Walgreen, CVS

  • It took almost a year and a number of motions filed by Randolph before the prosecution turned over the nine gigabytes of electronic evidence it had accumulated so the defense could prepare its case.

    FORBES: The demonizing of a hacker

  • Trouble is, this is the first time anything had been done, even though Leong Hin's stock had been exhibiting suspicious trading behavior for more than a year and a half--rising and falling over roughly six-month cycles by almost identical amounts, regardless of movements in the local market and with little news from the company.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The dispute at the company over pay and cost-cutting has dragged on for almost a year.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Shorts pay dispute resolved

  • In that report we listed 18 previous grant related reports over a five or six year period and Awema is almost number 19 in that list.

    BBC: Awema is a 'wake up call for Welsh government' funding

  • Kodak lost almost 90% of its market value in just over a decade, and declared bankruptcy last year.

    FORBES: How To Succeed: 1 Critical Lesson From Those Who Failed

  • TeenScreen says requests for screening questionnaires have almost tripled over a two-year period to 426, 000 in 2010, and have come from schools, primary-care physicians and managed-care organizations.

    WSJ: Will Students Take a Mental Health Test?

  • But Mead has never sold many records, and after runs on two big labels (followed by brief stops on two minuscule ones), he's found himself starting over: Late last year, he released his new album (Almost and Always) through a service called NoiseTrade, on which listeners can either pay what they want or receive a free download in exchange for the email addresses of five friends.

    NPR: David Mead: Warm And Bittersweet

  • Davies and Kraus were brought together by Brian Melzack, who fronted a consortium that almost took over at Loftus Road last year.

    BBC: QPR clinch USA link

  • In China, worries are growing about weakening export demand (growth in export volumes has fallen by almost half over the past year to 11%) and falling property prices, which seem to play a role similar to equity prices elsewhere.

    ECONOMIST: Emerging countries are not the havens some people thought

  • However, almost every movie theater abides by the 17 and over rule, which prevented me from seeing Gladiator as a thirteen year old.

    FORBES: Do Video Games Need First Amendment Protection?

  • After dropping off his children on 26 March, the 40-year-old went to a nearby supermarket, but crashed into two cars and almost ran over a man.

    BBC: Darlington father jailed over drink-driving

  • In Britain , dispute arose over urgings by David Blunkett, the home secretary, that immigrants should do more to adapt to British ways, and over a report on some race riots earlier this year, which lamented that brown and white communities live almost entirely apart.

    ECONOMIST: Politics this week | The

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