(Of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but.
1 Question: Myself and my wife met through work almost 20 years ago.
2 THE question is almost impossible to answer: why is Winx so good?
3 However, as before mentioned, the result was at first almost exactly opposite.
4 The last few minutes almost offer a sliver of hope to Europe.
5 Question: I have worked in the same industry for almost 30 years.
6 Palm oil markets, however, are still down almost 4 percent this year.
7 But the New IRA will almost certainly continue its campaign, she said.
8 I was home free, and I would almost certainly remain that way.
9 It is as good as the sea: in some ways almost better.
10 I'd seen almost exactly the same thing happen once before, years ago.
11 Their citizens almost always have the legal right to refuge in Europe.
12 Poultry slaughtering totals almost 900 million a year, the vast majority chickens.
13 For once, the French left and right used almost the same words.
14 The original plan, first agreed almost 15 years ago, comprised five parts.
15 Future increases will have to be almost entirely new money, he said.
16 Thirty-two years later we are still saying almost ten years, he said.
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