It had been almost ten years since the last major soccer league in the United States had closed down.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

You tell me when it stops!" For years, almost all leading movie and television stars, male or female,were white.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

A Beatles song was almost always at the top of the charts until the group's next hit replaced it.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

When it was almost time for the sun to rise, she quietly left her house and hurried through the forest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The Taos Pueblo you see today looks almost as it did to the Spanish when they arrived almost five centuries ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The concrete and glass museum is built next to a body of water, so it almost seems to float.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

It was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

On an average day,it says, almost twenty-seven thousand doctors, nurses and others work in teams of local and foreign aid workers.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

But improved treatments to ease the effects of the disease make it possible for many patients to live almost normal lives.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

This week,Bank of America said it received a letter from investors holding almost fifty billion dollars in mortgage-backed securities.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

It can travel almost four hundred kilometers before it needs recharging, depending on how fast it is driven.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

A new report from the Global Fund says almost five million lives have been saved through the six hundred programs it supports.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

It and the University of California,Berkeley, led the almost fifty scientists who helped with the frog genome project.

VOA: special.2010.06.29