0 nearly -- casi
1 a little less than; not quite -- casi
almost 30,000 people at the game casi 30,000 personas en el juego
We waited almost twenty minutes. Esperamos casi veinte minutos.
I’m almost done. Casi termino.
We’re almost there. Casi estamos allí.
The movie’s almost as funny/good/exciting as the last one. La película es casi tan divertida / buena / emocionante como la última.
In the next 15 years, the number of the very elderly, that is, over the age of 80, will increase by almost 50%.
Unfortunately, this potentially lethal counterfeiting is not widely known about and, in the majority of cases, goes almost unremarked.
Drivers' attentiveness falls almost as much as a result of tiredness as it does under the influence of alcohol.
2005 is almost upon us, already the midway point in the decade, and the balance sheet does not make very cheerful reading.
We are indebted to the women of our villages, who have contributed incalculably and almost invisibly to the development of the countryside.
In almost all national economies, public procurement is an important catalyst for economic development.
