The little girl next to me seemed almost to gasp at the sharp turn of events.
He aims to push Net traffic to 50% of all MCI calls next year and to almost a full 100% in 2005.
He is not eligible to stand again, but, given the weak and fragmented state of the opposition, whoever Frelimo chooses to succeed him is almost certain to win the next presidential election in 2014.
Leading us on to believe such incredulous things such as a next-to-definite Apple tablet, an almost-certain iPhone, sure-to-be-impending widescreen (and wireless) iPod, forthcoming iSight-ed Cinema Display, and an 802.11n-compatible iTV may actually see the light of day.
Organisers of the campaign for a windfall tax say they have secured a resolution on the issue to be debated at the TUC conference next week, which they claim is almost certain to be passed.
With people living longer, the number of people with dementia is set to increase by almost 40% over the next 15 years and is expected to reach one million people by 2025.
The changes will be put before Parliament next week and are almost certain to be adopted.
Reforming the welfare state so as not to pass a crushing burden to the next generation has reached almost existential importance in Japan.
We are now committing to a transition process that takes place next year, but the full transition to Afghan responsibility is almost two years away.
Next on my list was to conquer the almost 900 steps leading up to the Monastery building, a tough climb but well worth the effort.
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Stuart Broad bowled the best line of the pace quartet, but it was in the field that he came close to claiming the next wicket when he almost ran out Powell.
The most poignant thing about the placement of the signs is that almost invariably they are next to spans of road upon which the service members, when they were younger, drove their own cars: on the way to movies, on the way to dances, on the way to grab late-night burgers with their best hometown friends.
While the next pope will almost certainly be chosen from among the cardinals set to attend the conclave at the Vatican within the next few weeks, technically any practicing Catholic can be elected to lead the church.
But as the Giants look ahead to next season, there are questions at almost every spot on the line.
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The national public debt is predicted almost to double in the next decade.
Six billion people will move to cities over the next 20 years, almost all of them in Asia, said Doerr.
There are miniature bronze replicas on sale at almost every shop, right next to the inevitable keychains, shot glasses, and wine openers with strategically-placed corkscrews.
They need to find extra money from somewhere, because Italy's financing requirements just next year could exhaust almost half of the EFSF's promised extra firepower - and, to be frank, there are still technical obstacles to the EFSF actually securing that firepower.
The costs of this downtime varies from one industry to the next, but are frequently massive and almost always growing.
Olympic champion Cathy Freeman will return to competition next month for the first time in almost six months as she starts her preparations for the 2004 Olympics.
"When the dust settles and everything is said and done, federal individual income taxes are not going to go up on almost all Americans next year, " GOP Sen.
In a report published last month, PricewaterhouseCoopers said it expected Macau to almost double its revenues over the next five years, accounting for about a third of total global casino earnings.
The man who is almost certainly going to be the next US secretary of state has given a broad hint that getting another round of Middle East peace talks going will be one of his top priorities.
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He was almost certain to lose the GOP primary next year if he remained a Republican.
Since almost everyone lives above, below or next to each other in apartment buildings, the sound can be overwhelming.
At this point it is almost impossible to judge what will happen next.
While it's almost impossible to determine exactly where the next reactor will crop up, we've developed our own handicapping system to boil down the choices somewhat.
The stories about Revis' potential departure had become so consuming that after Idzik walked to the podium and introduced himself to reporters, he spent the next eight minutes talking almost exclusively about the star cornerback.
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