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This thrust my mother, my sister and I out of the relative comfort of middle-class life and into the almost constant struggle to make ends meet.
Almost everything here she's wearing, I printed from my home.
I could have called it almost anything.
Almost 60 years before Darwin published his book, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that creatures evolve by developing certain traits over their lifetimes and then passing those on to their offspring.
And the Greater London Authority has been aware of this for a while, and the main causes are population growth, the fact that existing cemeteries are almost full.
There's actually almost no regulation in the UK around burial, and the little bit that there is, is about not polluting water courses, like not polluting rivers or groundwater.
Now, they do warn you that your neighbors might not like this, but, legally speaking, there's almost nothing that they can do about it.
Historians aren't sure when or how this number was first discovered, but it's been known in some form for almost 4,000 years.
After the age of roughly 15, it's almost impossible to learn a new language without an accent and without slipping up here and there as we all know from what language classes are like.
During your dream, special neurotransmitters are released, which paralyze almost all of your muscles.
This grew to a small community, to almost an entire movement of people in defense of the sea.
Almost a year passed and several more Soviet astronauts completed their missions before Project Mercury succeeded in making John Glenn the first American in orbit in February 1962.
Almost 98% of Anarctica is covered by ice at least one mile in thickness.
Wars are a tragic part of our history and will almost certainly be a tragic part of our future.
This attack results in a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier almost melting down, which was stopped just short of killing thousands of soldiers and civilians.
So it's a rather elegant, almost poetic way of looking at the world, but it has one catastrophic problem.
This summer, the LHC began its second phase of operation with an energy almost double what we achieved in the first run.
During 2015, almost one million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe from many different countries, of course, from Syria and Iraq, but also from Afghanistan and Bangladesh and Eritrea and elsewhere.
We've had lots of very different models for atoms since Democritus in 400 BC, and there will almost certainly be many more to come.
How electrons from one atom interact with electrons from another determines almost everything.
Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.
Almost all projects of this kind fall apart within a decade because too many people drop out of the study, or funding for the research dries up, or the researchers get distracted, or they die, and nobody moves the ball further down the field.
Almost 2,000 insect species are turned into food, forming a big part of everyday diets for two billion people around the world.
They have a high vitamin content, loads of healthy minerals, and can contain up to 50% protein, almost as much as in an equivalent amount of beef.
In the early 1960s, Dick Fosbury tried his hand at almost every sport, but never excelled at anything, until, at the age of 16, he turned to the high jump.
By the next Olympic Games, almost all of the competing of high jumpers had adopted what came to be known as the Fosbury Flop.
It was about 75 percent hydrogen and almost all the rest was helium.
The treatment wetland receives water from a part of the Santa Ana River that in the summertime consists almost entirely of wastewater effluent from cities like Riverside and San Bernardino.
A typical crime scene has almost no adult bees left in the hive, except, perhaps, a lonely queen and a few other survivors.
The resulting food web is so connected that almost every species is no more than two degrees from detritus, even us humans.
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