(1) Rachel laughed, almost apologetically

(2) Some of the lads have come and gone, but we've got a hard core who almost always turn up.

(3) They now have to spend almost as much time at the station as they do out on the streets.

(4) The storm was almost upon them

(5) To our west, the great sheet of ice that stretched before us was almost too much to take in.

(6) It almost doubled last year

(7) The place was almost empty

(8) It was found almost one in five workers lost at least an hour at work a week because of delays.

(9) I almost forgot

(10) Add it all up and in almost every city in the UK it is now cheaper to rent than to buy.

(11) It's almost over

(12) There was almost a sense that if we did not say the word the problem would go away.

(13) He almost knocked Georgina over

(14) By the time my reply was ready to send back almost an hour had passed and it was midnight.

(15) It was almost all there

(16) He almost dropped the bottle

(17) It was almost as if the local wildlife had decided to put on a show just to entertain us.

(18) He is smoking a pipe, and it almost goes without saying that he is wearing a dark suit.

(19) That's the gem that one of her pet dogs almost ate when she lost it in a hotel room.

(20) On the fifth he drove it in a creek to the left and almost broke his club hacking it out of there.