0 a little less than; not quite -- nesten
almost 30,000 people at the game nesten 30.000 tilskuere på kampen
We waited almost twenty minutes. Vi ventet i nesten tjue minutter.
I’m almost done. Jeg er nesten ferdig.
We’re almost there. Vi er nesten fremme.
The movie’s almost as funny/good/exciting as the last one. Filmen er nesten like morsom/bra/spennende som den forrige.
In contrast, the nonspatial characteristics of the target (such as its weight or function) are almost completely unlikely to change after the movement is planned.
Most disturbing is the finding that once players learn that their opponent has either cooperated or defected, almost all defect.
Because instrumented code is (almost) ordinary source, it can be processed by the ordinary compiler.
Again, in this application the theory simplifies because of lack of a paternal genetic effect on the fruits (tomatoes are almost purely maternal tissue).
Limited almost exclusively to problems of spatial perception, that analysis gives short shrift to even the most fundamental issues of psychological or physiological import.
Clearly, for values of around 1, this cannot be expected because past inflation has almost no predictive power.
A brief excerpt, selected almost at random, may hint at its flavor.
To account for the simultaneous increase in length constant of the horizontal cell's receptive field, the junctional conductance would have to increase almost 8-fold.
