He was nearly ours.

We came dangerously close to freezing to death.

We almost died. How can I forget?

One and two, we're nearly through.

My dog. We must be almost there.

Rangers?

We're wasting time here.

During the war we almost starved.

Wow, we were going crazy at the filming location.

Depends on how hard we work.

Moreover, we nearly died together.

We'd have slit your throats for snooping spies by now... only for what you did to them soldiers.

Oh, well, perhaps you're right. Pity, just when we were getting on so nicely.

The problem is that we have released so darn much of this stuff, we're climbing up to two million gallons very quickly.

All but lost in the controversies surrounding Iraq and Iran is a major initiative involving a third I country India.

We almost collide with the cornice of the Palazzo Farnese designed by Michelangelo, built of stone taken from the Coliseum narrow escape.

In 2009, we were pulled back from the brink of depression, and 2010 was supposed to be the year of transition as the economy got back on its feet, stimulus spending could smoothly be brought down.

It is not a dead end, but a barrier that has to be broken through so that, from the dead end that it has almost reached, the General Assembly is resurrected and revitalized as the most powerful universal body of the United Nations.

That achievement is all the more notable because it has crowned a critical exercise in which differing approaches to human rights sometimes came perilously close to being resolved by resorting to a vote.

Europe may have high levels of prosperity and deeply rooted democracies and it may be one of the most stable regions in the world, but the ghosts of the past and leanings towards near forgotten forms of nationalistic chauvinism are still with us.

Once we saw our exaggerated hopes for our investments failing, we began to consider our other sources of income and wealth, only to confront the worldwide economic slowdown that began in 2001.

My brother has not been able to share the trials of our family on occasions such as the tragedy I have just mentioned, the death of our nephew Carlos and the time we almost lost our father to a stroke and when he needed urgent surgery to remove bloodclot in the brain.