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

In two thousand five, almost one thousand people were killed in an earthquake near the island of Nias.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

And in the past several years we've begun to see almost an equal interest by families in sending students here for undergraduate education, and I think that's going to continue because America is really a unique country.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Almost one in four unemployed workers is experiencing an unemployment spell of six months or longer, the highest level in over 25 years,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"We have an economy that was growing at almost six percent in the fourth quarter of last year the most rapid rate in six years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

The International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental energy advisor, has projected an almost in conventional oil production by 2020 and the potential for a serious gap between supply and demand by 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20