Such a disaster once almost happened.

曾经差点就发生了这样一场灾难。

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The fight almost happened one night when they stopped by a lake.

一天夜晚，这场搏斗差一点儿就发生了。

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It happened almost exactly a year ago.

这事情发生差不多正好一年了。

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It happened almost sixty million years ago and again thirteen million years ago.

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It actually almost happened not at all.

这样的事。

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If the crash had not happened,he says, Komorowski would almost certainly have won in the first round.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

That almost happened in the dying seconds of what ended up as an absorbing end-to-end contest but Pantelic smashed a cross from the right wide of the target.

BBC: Australia 2-1 Serbia

England may have been trying to knock his helmet onto the stumps, as almost happened in the first innings, but his chin strap remained as resolute as his levels of concentration.

BBC: South Africa earn draw at Lord's

Her creators were so concerned about getting her just right that she almost never happened.

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