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They would get all dressed up and wait for him, but he would almost never come.
Then as time passed, at the end of almost two years, they thought, "Well, perhaps our father has died."
For almost all of its millions and billions of years, there was no life on Earth at all.
For almost all the years of life on Earth, there was no intelligent life.
And the United States is responsible for almost one half of the world's military spending.
It's almost like we've been preparing for it our whole lives.
I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.
If, for example, terrorism almost never happens, it's really hard to judge the efficacy of counter-terrorist measures.
In a certain sense, it's almost as if every atom out there were becoming both a sensor and an actuator.
No, they didn't demolish it, just when it goes down, the architecture almost disappears.
I wish I could spend half an hour telling you about how we almost died on this dive.
After an hour in these conditions, it's so extreme that, when I go down, almost every dive I vomit into my regulator because my body can't deal with the stress of the cold on my head.
This material actually has some traits that make it seem almost too good to be true.
Players who didn't smile in their pictures lived an average of only 72.9 years, where players with beaming smiles lived an average of almost 80 years.
He would almost always win.
The pain had spread from her wrist to her hands, to her fingertips, from her wrist up to her elbow, almost all the way to her shoulder.
It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.
Jon, polio's almost been eradicated.
But the reason there's not very much left is because there's been an extraordinary public/private partnership working behind the scenes, almost unknown, I'm sure to most of you here today.
But just last year, we had an incredible shock and realized that almost just isn't good enough with a virus like polio.
With polio it's almost completely different.
But the pro-EU sentiment in Turkey in the past decade has become almost an Islamic cause and supported by the Islamic liberals and the secular liberals as well, of course.
You can almost always look phenomenal for under $50.
It is almost physiologically impossible to be in a bad mood when you're wearing bright red pants.
If you think you look good in something, you almost certainly do.
And this sort of data explosion available from these is really almost becoming a challenge.
But if I take that same data, upload it to deCODEme, I can look at my risk for type 2 diabetes; I'm at almost twice the risk.
And yes, like Tom said, killing almost half of the creatures that allow us to breathe is a really big deal.
I first went to Antarctica almost 10 years ago, where I saw my first icebergs.
The icebergs around me were almost 200 feet out of the water, and I could only help but wonder that this was one snowflake on top of another snowflake, year after year.
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