I got a visit almost exactly a year ago, a little over a year ago, from a very senior person at the Department of Defense.

This year, malnutrition will kill almost four million people.

Evidence of anxiety outside the US has been clear to everyone for almost a year.

Almost exactly one year ago, Hurricane Ivan devastated Grenadian society.

Almost every contemporary use of the depression analogy takes the year 1929 as a reference point.

The Deputy Secretary General It is almost a year since United Nations troops arrived in Haiti.

By the end of the year almost 800 had been killed in total, with casualties almost equal on both sides.

Almost this time of the year, last year, Boushra al Maqtary faced and still faces the same issue.

Aziz spent almost a year in Europe and in the end has nothing to show for it.

The airport was originally expected to be operational at the end of the year 2011, but this date was pushed back by almost a year in September of that year.

Almost one year ago, South East Asia suffered an unprecedented natural disaster.

And there's about 6,000 people last year that walked on a landmine, but worldwide last year, almost 1.9 million died from tuberculosis as a first cause of infection.

ISTANBUL The Doha Round of global trade talks appears to have died this year, almost without a whimper.

NEW YORK It is now almost a year since the world economy teetered on the edge of calamity.

That's, and I'm going to be fair to the statisticians who talked this morning, not almost 1.5 million people a week, but almost 1.4 million people a week but I'm a journalist, and we exaggerate, so almost 1.5 million people a week, close to 70 million people a year.

Nearly all of the island is covered by a glacier and it is surrounded most of the year by pack ice, making it inaccessible almost all year round.

On the 29th of October 2005, after almost a year of development, uCoz announced the Russian version of the system.

Almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America, the Arctic Ocean is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year (and almost completely in winter).

Each year in Norway, the government publishes the income and wealth of almost every taxpayer.

Among the young, almost 37 of 18 24 year olds do not finish high school.

Now those with the disease can lead an almost normal life, thanks to a drug called Cerezyme but it costs 175,000 a year.

Average annual growth in the least developed countries, many in Africa, reached almost 7 last year.

The academic year is almost over and the torment of the sacked students is still ongoing

We're seeing here a three and a half year period, four pay raises, people who were struggling to save, were saving three percent of their paycheck, three and a half years later saving almost four times as much, almost 14 percent.

But just last year, we had an incredible shock and realized that almost just isn't good enough with a virus like polio.

Well the answer, of course, is, if you spend 125 billion or 130 billion dollars a year in a country, you co opt almost everybody.

Disbursal of relief funds to help Italy rebuild after severe floods in 2011 took almost a year, owing to politicization in the Council.

You know, this is almost like designing something like Maya that an eight year old can use.

Almost a year later, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court had still not been appointed and Ecuador's international image was being damaged as a result.

SARAJEVO Almost exactly 13 years ago, American leadership brought an end to Bosnia's three and a half year war through the Dayton peace agreement.

Like their counterparts across the Arab world, Mauritanian activists have been protesting Arab Spring like for political and economic reforms for almost a year.

The Conference ended almost a year ago, and the people of Yemen are still waiting for the outcomes of the NDC to be realized.

This year, for my birthday, I received a small pistol from a friend who was worried about me, vulnerable in a country where almost everyone is now armed.

Similarly, while Brazil s economy remained relatively resilient after the 2009 recession, growth slowed almost to zero last year.

Rauma is also the fifth largest port in Finland with almost six million tonnes of shipping per year.

Currently, the Office works on cases presented by almost 1.5 per cent of its total constituency each year.

Indeed, total borrowing by local government now amounts to roughly 900 billion, up from 150 billion year on year and the equivalent of almost 20 of GDP.

And about 2.5 trillion annually would go to today s developing countries every year, or 500 a year on average for each individual in the third world, almost half of whom now survive on less than 2 a day.

Next year will almost certainly see a massive rise in US corporate defaults, even though many firms entered the recession with relatively strong balance sheets.

Roughly 5.7 million people in South Africa are living with HIV and 350,000 people died of the disease last year (almost 1,000 deaths a day).

As the momentum picks up year after year, the WHL is confident that almost all the estimated 1.5 billion people affected by elevated blood pressure can be reached.

LONDON It is now almost one year since the European Union committed to stabilize Lebanon following last summer s war.

At year end, employment in Ontario had reached almost 6.3 million, representing 39.5 percent of all employment in Canada.

NEW YORK A consensus now exists that America s recession already a year old is likely to be long and deep, and that almost all countries will be affected.

A year later, the Australian Bureau of Statistics noted that indigenous women were being imprisoned nationally at a rate almost 21 times that of non indigenous women.10