At the Japan-Italy game in Volos about 200 miles north of Athens, barely 5, 000 fans were in the stadium, and there were almost as many Japanese fans as locals.
In the middle of the 20th century there were almost no Muslims in Europe.
After Aaron and Farris, however, there were almost three hours of splats until Abbott skated.
Last year, there were almost 24 million Russians in their 20s, according to Russia's State Statistics Committee.
According to 2009 figures from the State Statistics Bureau there were almost 230 million migrant workers in China.
To me, it looked perfectly ordinary, except that, as van Engelsdorp pointed out, there were almost no bees on it.
We know that when the police re-opened the Lawrence files and started afresh in 2006, there were almost 200 potential suspects on the database.
According to the International Telecommunication Union, there were almost 6 billion mobile subscriptions at the end of 2011, which is equivalent to 87 percent of the world population.
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But almost immediately there were signs both sides were violating its terms, even with hundreds of unarmed U.N. monitors in the country.
There were once almost two million gray wolves in North America, but they were nearly wiped out by fur traders and hunters in the 1930s.
At Commons question time on 8 December 2009, Mr Healey said that by the end of September there were "almost 100 completions" under the mortgage rescue scheme.
Mr. SEGELL: And as his spiritual quest continued, he moved into the soprano, and it was almost as though there were these parallel movements.
To take one example, at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the last big battle with the Indians in 1890, where almost 200 Sioux were killed, there was a rich haul of artifacts.
But it bothered me that she was talking to him almost as if I were not standing there beside her.
There are almost 2, 000 more businesses in the borough now than there were a decade ago, Bloomberg said.
There were long coats that were almost monastic in shape but the patchwork fur sleeves gave them an edge.
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There were times when the idea of parting from his mother filled Aryeh Zelnik with sadness and shame, but there were other times when he almost looked forward to her decline and to the possibilities that would open up before him when she was taken out of the house.
Instead, it's better to just come out and say it: while watching the swimming event and cut-down highlights of the opening ceremony, there were moments when we could almost have believed we were looking not at a projected image, but rather through a window direct onto the Olympic Stadium or Aquatics Center itself.
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In the 1950s, there were 607, 000 miners in almost 150 mines, producing 150 million tonnes of coal.
In 2010 there were 9.4 accidents and almost six deaths per million man-hours.
The Bardiya National Park in the west now has more than 80 elephants, almost 10 times as many as there were in the 1990s.
Not counting the Super Bowl, or even the playoffs, there were about 350 NFL games with almost 40 in prime time, and an average of 18 million viewers.
Nearly 200 people took part in our quick vote and we found that there was an almost equal number who were ok with flirting at work and those who weren't.
Back in Dominica in 1949, the first woman ever to set up a legal practice there, her energies were engaged in that for almost two decades.
When it was cloudy - or when there were flurries of snow - the landscape appeared almost lunar and barren, and it was impossible to imagine any kind of animals enduring here.
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