People under 24 now make up almost half the world's population.

About half of the Palestinian population, 18 million persons, lived below the poverty threshold.

Every year the Special Committee considered the agenda item without hardly any discussion and, on the last day of session, adopted almost exactly the same text.

Interestingly, the terms center and periphery have crept into usage almost unnoticed.

Over 300,000 people almost half of the country's population were affected, of whom one third were children under nine years of age.

Almost without exception, Iraqi interlocutors want the United Nations to assume greater responsibilities and greater visibility in Iraq.

Nearly all deaths among children under five years of age (99 per cent) occur in low income countries or the poor areas of middle income countries.

Having grown up with presidents and presidential candidates tossing around the Bond meme virtually without challenge, they thought I was making things up.

For almost three decades, sustainable development has been defined as development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising future generations ability to meet their needs.

For the subregion as a whole, the collective GDP growth rate is expected to ease by around 0.7 per cent in 2005.

When I was about five years old, not very much about a year after

The box is almost empty.

The proposed new transit system was an exclusively political undertaking that envisaged the construction of a new and costly infrastructure instead of revitalizing the current infrastructure at almost no cost.

They therefore have approximately the same orbital period as Neptune and follow roughly the same orbital path.

That's about all.

About the same time, envoys were also sent to Persia by King Ferdinand, in the person of Pietro da Negro and Simon de Lillis, without success.

TEL AVIV It is remarkable that a stern warning about the scale of the threat posed to the United States by Syria s civil war has gone practically unnoticed.

Almost many of them are impossible.

He has, say, fifty thousand yen.

India s is growing at nearly the same rate.

Of these, almost half are girls.

Almost anything can happen within them.

It's been, as I said, close to 30 years.

Sami can swim just about as well as Layla can.

Zaidis make up about one third of the population of Yemen.

Almost all of the pupils were in the classroom.

After approximately one week, colonies of cells grew out.

World population was approximately 5 million.

The trial lasted almost four years.

The central message of all religions is almost identical.

Petroleum also makes up 40 percent of total energy consumption in the United States, but is responsible for only 1 percent of electricity generation.

The proposal that each regional subregional office should be headed by a D 1 reflected the size of the offices, which would have approximately 100 staff, and the level of responsibility and authority that would be delegated to them.

If only two peace agreements had been successfully implemented in the early 1990s the Bicesse Accords in Angola and the Arusha Accords in Rwanda we could have prevented the deaths of almost three million people.

I had my own lost time moment, where I woke up and suddenly realized it was very late in the day, almost dinnertime, and she had not come back.

Fadil stayed in Cairo for about four months.

The argument is almost entirely wrong.

Today, the Greek community there has approximately 1,000 members.

Nearly all Japanese have dark hair.

Before approximately 1990, the name of the county was Szolnok.

Population loss during WW I was approximately 350,000.

Elections are held approximately every four years.

Setbacks occurred almost immediately.

Almost all the key details have now been agreed.

I shall now suspend the meeting for about 15 minutes.

Removal of the deceased and injured began almost immediately.