This last weekend of college basketball's regular season is like a season finale of the television show "Homeland": It's almost over, and we have no idea what's going to happen.
It's almost surely over, unless Al Gore wants to keep it going.
As a consequence, it's almost impossible to over-exaggerate how remarkable it is that Sunday's big football match between River Plate and Boca Juniors - the two major football clubs in the country - has been moved to allow the nation to watch Pichot and his team in Paris.
It's almost 6 inches long and over 3 inches wide.
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"I'm almost relieved that it's over because there's only so much I felt I could do, " said the 31-year-old.
"By then, it's December and the semester is almost over, " he said.
"Otherwise, it's almost like you've spilled this debris over people's lives, telling them your stuff, " she says.
It's almost as if the sense of control you possess over your immediate space extends out infinitely.
Monday's action was very nearly over almost before it began as two golf balls moved on the green due to strong gusts but the wind subsided and play continued the rest of the day.
It has presided over the consolidation of Chile's democracy, almost two decades of economic growth and stability, and much social progress.
Tesla said it delivered over 250 Model S cars in the quarter, producing almost 350.
Congress is already mulling a bill that would overturn a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made it almost impossible to sue manufacturers over Food and Drug Administration-approved medical devices, for example.
Now it's been almost three months since all the hubbub and our friends over at Format War Central have spotted one of the few Target stores to start offering the BDP-S300.
But TP Mazembe's second appearance at the Club World Cup was almost over before it started.
"It's almost as if he foreshadowed James Brown in the sense in which rhythm predominated over melody and the usual conventions of pop songwriting, " Guralnick says.
Analysts are often prone to over-speculating about Apple launches, but at this point it's almost anyone's guess -- trying to call Apple's next move is a cruel, cruel mistress.
Despite the veneer of civility, fighting over the Cup began almost as soon as it came to the U.S. British challengers in the late 1800s complained first that they were forced to sail against entire fleets of defending yachts (the New York Yacht Club eventually agreed to race one defender).
Mr. WESSEL: We have broken almost every rule and guideline and precedent so far in this crisis, and it's not over yet.
It's almost like, oh, I'd rather not do that -- I want to start over again with you.
It could also add to the tensions within Mr Cardoso's fractious coalition (which almost came to blows this week over the choice of a new chief of the federal police).
Although the poll showed Americans divided almost evenly over whether they approve of the president's Iraq policy, 55 percent said it was not a mistake to send U.S. troops there, compared with 42 percent who thought it was a mistake.
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