From that time until she was almost seven years old, Helen could communicate only by making signs with her hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Almost thirty years later, she received a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on the genocide that took place there.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

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

She has said that writing the songs on "Bare Bones" was a very new experience, almost like making her first album over again.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

And it almost fell at the Alamo Beside the Texas flag, But she waved on though.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

said the man gently. "I've been with you today, and every day,almost, since--since she left us.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

But she continued to travel, speak and study almost to the end of her life.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

She shivered at its silence. She hurried up the stairs, almost with guilt.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

While she was with the band, Ella recorded almost one hundred fifty songs.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Her name was Anne Sullivan. She herself had once been almost completely blind.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

When she was only twelve years old, Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons of several animals that no longer existed on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

She also uses Facebook but says people almost never discuss science there.

VOA: special.2011.04.28

Harriet almost died. Months passed before she could get out of bed.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

And she had friends in almost every department of the government.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

She once said that hands speak almost as loudly as words.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Sylvie didn't answer. She was glad they were almost home.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

She was almost eighty years old at the time.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

She was this way in almost everything she did.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She knew almost all the top government officials.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

She became famous almost overnight.

VOA: special.2010.12.24

She's been an elementary school math teacher for almost 30 years, and says introducing this new curriculum has been an exciting experience.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

She goes from writing no poems to writing almost a poem a week.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

She is beautiful but not sexual, almost androgynous.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26