Research by the American-Statesman shows that nearly two dozen county and private lockups are now vacant or almost so, as are thousands of bunks in state adult and juvenile prisons.
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As yet, no national standards exist for magnetic stripes and account numbering, so almost all of the 300m or so cards in China are used only as cash-machine or debit cards in the issuing bank's home city.
Ironically, by 2009 or so it was almost universally embraced.
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The commune, whose thousand or so residents are almost all progeny of the male founders, follows the precepts of the breakaway Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints based in Utah.
If you are old enough to remember, when Ronald Reagan gave his first State of the Union, The Gipper, the old actor, stood up and appeared to speak for almost an hour, or so I recall.
One example is the web-sites that now exist for almost all 3, 000 or so undergraduate courses.
Almost all of the 100 or so tombs unearthed to date are single chambers, often small, always made of brick.
With change, you either want it to be almost imperceptible (slow) or so fast that it happens before the organization understands it.
Luckily, in the last year or so I had been working almost exclusively on Google Docs while writing for work or school.
They have almost no money in stocks or commodities so the easing programs were invisible to them other than raising gasoline prices here and there.
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The issue of whether a company can sell ads on others' sites had been put to rest almost a decade ago, or so Calacanis believed.
DJs must fit perfectly, so tailoring or altering will be almost a foregone conclusion.
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But for one inning or so, they can be found almost anywhere.
The value of a meeting as opposed to a letter or phone call is so that you can almost literally see what the other person means, not just hear what they say.
Over the 80 or so quarters he was in charge, GE's profits grew so consistently they were almost a straight line.
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In cash trading for stocks or bonds, pricing errors are revealed almost immediately, so losses are limited.
But it seems now, if you look at the Iraqi map, in the last 48 hours or so, the insurgency has spread to almost every single town, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, Najaf, Nasiriya, Ramadi.
Had we not gone to war against Iraq in 2003, we almost certainly would have done so there or in another Arab country at another time, and all in less advantageous circumstances.
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The other big failing of the new Burke's is its decision to include the 500 or so life peerages in its pages while almost entirely failing to give any genealogical information about them.
All of which suggests that although the life of FLS will almost certainly be extended for another year or so, and perhaps access to cheap loans from the Bank of England will be widened to lenders that aren't technically banks or building societies, it won't be "put on steroids" (to use the resonant phrase from this morning's FT headline).
Fire ants, he explained, could build stable tunnels in sand or soil with almost no moisture to bind it together, so learning from them might enable designers to build and programme robots that solve these same engineering problems.
Postabank will almost certainly end up for sale within a year or so.
The trick, he says, is to harness material efficiency so people can enjoy goods that are equivalent or almost equivalent.
All of this stands in contrast to just a decade or so ago when the disease was considered resistent to almost any treatment.
Just over half (53%) of white British students were awarded upper second class degrees, while almost 40% of black or black British Caribbean students did so.
Of course in the U.S. most union and government workers get good stretches of time off, and in private industry three weeks of vacation after five or ten years of employment is so common as to be almost standard.
The 60% or so of schools destroyed or closed during the war have almost all been rebuilt or re-opened.
Anything even a fraction short or wide was ruthlessly punished and so dominant was he that it almost escaped unnoticed that the man at the other end was Sehwag, himself no slouch.
If, however, America's economy is currently operating well above capacity, and growth needs to be slowed to 2% for a year or so, then interest rates would need to rise by almost three percentage points.
"He said: "There used to be just four or five potholes, now it's so bad it's almost impossible to know where to start.
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