Quotes about almost
almost economy efforts electricity employees exercise huge rescue section
A huge section of the U.S. economy is down. It's as complicated as the rescue efforts in New Orleans; it's all these different pieces. You have to get electricity restored, find out where your employees are; it's almost a mind-boggling exercise.
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A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET. Annalee Newitz
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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. Jonathan Kozol
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A girl like you that is not necessarily super tall or has a model proportion has to be almost perfect and you nearly fell off this runway. Tyra Banks
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You win a lot, you're in the spotlight almost constantly. I think anybody that has long-term success in a world as competitive as major college athletics is going to have some criticism.
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You will see almost every market that features RFG (reformulated gasoline) with MTBE switch to a gasohol blend by next May,
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You've got to play sound defense. This is one of those running backs where the play might start to the right, but it might end up on the left. He's almost Michael Vick when he has the ball in his hands.
almost behind five four guys
You've got to have a mind-set to play your own game, almost like you're behind. Guys out here are pretty good. Someone can come from four or five behind pretty easily.
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You've almost got to approach it like a state championship game. I knew the way (North Port swings) the bats, we'd better get as many runs as we could.
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Andrew was almost the same intensity as this storm, but Andrew was small. This is a huge storm so ... (Floyd) is much more dangerous than Andrew.
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And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole. Aisha Tyler
almost casting east far light people red sky
And (it) stopped, almost stock-still, in the sky to the east of our location. People were getting out of their cars, ... It was casting a red light ... all over the theater, all over the airport, as far as we could see. Peter Davenport
almost changed conference happen losing period tough
And it's going to be tough to do because he went almost 11 years without losing a conference game. That's not going to happen now. The times have changed and I think it was probably a period that will never be duplicated in this conference again. Sylvester Croom
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II. Oliver North
almost depending late preferable sooner
And sooner is preferable to later, ... by fall, depending on the issues, it can almost be too late sometimes. Karen Smith
almost american-director half knew narrative staged
And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong. Terry Zwigoff
almost behind discover life suddenly
And now, suddenly you discover that almost everything is behind you, and that life has its limits, Fidel Castro
almost effort equal start thinking treated
And now I'm thinking we almost have to start a lobbying effort just to be treated on an equal basis. David Heyman
almost bottom local money people pyramid
And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.
almost bit constantly paradox talk
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices. Julia Leigh
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All this has helped underpin a dollar bullish view and almost makes a rate hike on Nov 1 a certainty.
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All of 2004, I was getting shot in the ankle after April. So this has been almost two years since I felt anything remotely close to this. This is what I was like in 2002. Curt Schilling
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The children are doing much better in school. I spoke with the custodial parent, and he has told me the grades have gone from failing to almost straight A's.
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The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.
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The goal shouldn't be to expand the envelope with taste. It should be to expand the envelope with creativity. . . . We're gearing those crimes to almost be popcornish.
almost decline dollar weaker
The dollar is weaker on the back of that, but considering the decline in the index, you would almost think (the dollar) would decline more.
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The economy was firing on almost all cylinders. It is continuing to show the resilience we've seen time and time again.
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The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for. Jim Lee
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The effort was there. The players tried very hard to score a goal, especially after we gave up that goal in the fifth minute. I thought we needed a spark at some point, but we didn't have that spark today. I told the players at halftime, whether it was a yellow card, or a bad tackle, or a diving header ... something that would wake them up even more. We are almost there, but obviously something was missing. Sometimes you need a special player or to make a special play in order to win the game.
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In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes. Holland Roden
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link. J. R. R. Tolkien
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The letter is so mean-spirited and reckless that I almost can't believe my longtime friend Donald Trump wrote it. Martha Stewart
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The lettering below the logo on the flag at No 42 is so small as to be almost illegible, and whilst this flag is contrary to the council's guideline due to that lettering, the level of departure is not significant and approval is recommended. The flag at No 36, however, has much larger lettering, and is unacceptable.