Quotes about almost
almost average chose hundred life living longer people retirement shows sign
People are living longer than ever before. A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was 47 years, and the median age was 17?. When they chose the age for retirement as 65, the average life expectancy was 62?. Now, the average life expectancy is almost 78, and shows no sign of topping off.
almost days extend few home jobs leaving people running schools starting stay
People are running out of money. They thought they were leaving for a few days of unplanned vacation. Then it was, 'I'll need to extend my stay by a few days.' And now, they don't know when they'll be able to go home or what they'll be going home to. They're starting to look for schools and jobs and transitional housing. ... It's almost like they've been through a war.
almost owed pay peg
Peg Collier was owed almost $17,000 and there was no way to pay her. In any world that's a lot of money. Sean Gallagher
almost complain computers lack
People, almost daily, complain about our lack of computers with Internet. Chris Shelton
almost obscure seem seems
PENTHOUSE didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.
almost funds higher mandate pension
Pension funds have obligations that almost mandate that they get higher returns.
almost caught demand detached economic funds government itself market pension uk vicious
Pension funds are caught in a vicious circle. The UK gilt market has now almost completely detached itself from economic fundamentals and has become a story of pension fund demand and Government supply.
almost good guys half heads kept knew problem score second sooner waited win
Our guys kept going hard, and we didn't put our heads down when things got rough. It's always good to win your first one, and we knew in the second half we would score sooner or later. The one problem was that we almost waited too late.
almost economy emerged judgment shows
Our judgment now shows the economy has almost broadly emerged from a stalled stage,
almost eternity feet fork journey odd
Our journey has advanced; / Our feet were almost come / To that odd fork in Being's road,/ Eternity by term. Emily Dickinson
almost crisis current desperate industry pulled workers
Our industry is almost desperate for new workers. If the current undocumented workers are pulled out of the industry, we will be in crisis mode.
almost beneath buried city downtown grew grove history house limits literally middle orange paved sit surrounded within wonderful
Our history is being literally paved over -- buried beneath the concrete. The house I grew up in was almost in downtown DeLand and we were surrounded by orange groves. Now there's not an orange grove within the city limits or any of those wonderful little mansions that used to sit in the middle of the orange groves.
almost coffee cup growth months takes
Our growth has always been upward, but there are months when it has been almost infinitesimal. When you think that a cup of coffee is $1.50, you see why it takes a lot to see a difference. E. B. White
almost centers community emergency expected life move normal possible safe stable stay
Our centers are almost like the emergency room. You're not expected to stay in the ER all your life. You go there, you try to get stable and then you move out to the community where you can live as normal as possible and as safe as possible.
almost billion conduct election foolproof fraud kinds minimum opportunity past people registered spent sure various voting
Over the past half-dozen years they've spent almost $2 billion in various kinds of safeguards, to make sure that people are registered correctly, to make sure that there's minimum opportunity for fraud on the voting cards, to have as much of a foolproof conduct of the election as possible, James Jones
almost arms met past successful systematic violations
Over the past 10 years, systematic violations of U.N. arms embargoes have met with almost no successful prosecutions. Irene Khan
almost decisions deliberate hope last members push ram strategy tough
Over the last 10 or 15 years, there's almost been a deliberate strategy to push all the tough decisions to the very end of a Congress, with the hope that you can ram them through as members try to get away for the holidays. Leon Panetta
almost bad days dead sick spouse
Over the first 30 days it can be almost as bad for you to have a sick spouse as a dead spouse.
almost commerce power
overturned almost 60 years of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause. Arlen Specter
almost corner debated decided exactly left overtime puck pull seconds shot stay third whether
Overtime was almost exactly like the end of the third period. We got the puck down in their end and called a timeout. We debated on whether or not to pull the goalie again. We decided to stay the way we were and Abby made an outstanding shot from the corner with 15.1 seconds left to give us the win.
almost arms continue grave human met mockery nations past rights security successful systematic ten united violations
Over the past ten years systematic violations of United Nations arms embargoes have met with almost no successful prosecutions. Unscrupulous arms dealers continue to get away with grave human rights abuses and make a mockery of the UN Security Council's efforts.
almost economic efforts fans informed league model passionate research sports support supportive
Our research told us that NHL fans were more informed than most sports fans, that they were very passionate and very loyal. It showed us that almost unequivocally, fans were supportive of the league in its efforts to put an economic model in place for long-term stability, and that about 95% of fans said they would come back and support the league when it returned.
almost argue impossible seniors team
Our seniors are all team players, so they don't really mind. Even if they didn't like it, it would be almost impossible to argue with their results.
almost great national opportunity season team
Our season was almost over in November. We were a team that was down and out. It's great to have an opportunity to play in the national tournament.
almost continues team win
Our team continues to play well enough to almost win games.
almost child drove finish overall poverty predict pregnancy rate scheme teen
(Our) statisticians (said) that if we told them the teen pregnancy rate and the child poverty rate of a city, they could almost predict where (it) would finish in the overall scheme of things. That is, (those two indicators largely) drove the results.
almost cliff deep games gave starters strong tonight
Our starters go deep into games so often that you almost take it for granted. Cliff gave us another strong one tonight after Scotty (Elarton) had one (Monday). Aaron Boone
almost banging gets later minute sure taylor upset
Our forwards don't get the calls. It could be because Taylor is in there banging hard, but when he gets fouled like that, it should be a penalty. I'm sure Taylor was upset by the non-penalty call, but a minute later he was back in there and almost scored. Steve Ralston
almost create goal
Our goal is to create almost a bowl-game atmosphere. Rob Cohen
almost caught few girls great hopes kept support
Our girls have great heart, and I think they had enough support here to keep their hopes up through the game. They kept up, and they almost caught up with them a few times.
almost bad excitement expect fans gone hard mean winning
Our fans almost expect us to win. Some of the excitement has gone away, and it's a little hard on the girls, but that doesn't mean winning is a bad thing.
almost game gave mess needle plan push second sluggish third thread
Our game plan was to push the puck. We got a little sluggish in the second period. We didn't mess around in the third period, we didn't try to thread the needle with any passes. But, we almost gave it away.
almost commit drew exactly game nice outside plan run turned
Our game plan was to come out running, make them commit, and that's what happened. It almost turned out like we drew it up. We wanted to make them run, make them commit to go by you, get to the outside and then put in a very nice run and that's exactly what happened. Corey Nakatani