Almost 800 specimens were illustrated by the artist Sydney Parkinson and appear in Banks ' Florilegium, finally published in 35 volumes between 1980 and 1990.

Almost 7, 800 of the 35, 000 civil aircraft built in the United States that year were Pipers, but a strike led to a shortage of steel tubing, interrupting production, and 1, 900 workers had to be suspended as a result.

Almost 35 % of the approximately 26, 000 permanent inhabitants are from the Netherlands, the UK, France and Scandinavia, whose children attend international schools in the area.

Almost 35 years later the Progressive Era Inland Waterways Commission, looking into similar issues and many new ones, would recognize the " Report of the Windom Select Committee " as the third epoch in the movement toward developing the inland waterways of the country.

Almost all stops have 60-meter-long low platforms ( 35 cm above rail level ) with a 6-meter-long ramp at each end of the platform.

Almost 600 people from 35 countries work at Life.

Almost all of the shows that come to the Theatre Royal are part of a national British tour, and in a typical year the theatre will have 30 to 35 visiting shows.

Almost half his 35 goals came on the power play ( 17 ), also a career personal best.

Almost half of the population is between the ages of 35 and 64 ; median age is 43 years.

Almost 9 million tons of goods arrive and leave each year.

Almost one-third of the population lives in England's southeast which is predominantly urban and suburban, with about 8 million in the capital city of London, the population density of which is just under 13, 000 per square mile.

# Improve Maternal Health: Almost all of the half million women who die during pregnancy or childbirth every year live in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Almost five million pairs are bought on this day.

Almost half ( 13. 3 million hectares ) of New Zealand's vegetated land is under some form of possum control, either for conservation reasons, or to reduce the spread of bovine tuberculosis.

Almost all the approximately two million tourists each year come from Germany.

Almost 7 million visit the tower each year.

Almost immediately after incorporation, Gary Vegliante, the village's first and to date only mayor, sued the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for $ 200 million.

Almost one-third of the present area of the American Nation, nearly a million square miles of territory, changed sovereignty.

Almost 100 million Clamp tankōbon copies have been sold worldwide as of October 2007.

Almost seven million cans of Spam are eaten every year in Hawaii.

Almost 24 million Americans — one in every 12 — are diabetic and the disease is causing widespread disability and death at an epidemic pace, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Almost one million people moved to Rondônia, and Porto Velho's population increased to three hundred thousand.

Almost a million inhabitants lost all of their possessions.

Almost 2. 5 million men volunteered for Kitchener's Army.

Almost 1 million cubic yards ( 760, 000 m³ ) of fill was dredged from the surrounding waters of False Creek to create the island under the Granville Street Bridge.

Almost 6 million Indians now own mobile phones.

Almost two million ballots were disqualified in the 2000 election because they registered multiple votes or none when run through vote-counting machines.

Almost 60 million pamphlets, booklets, and leaflets were distributed.

Almost two years later, WMATA broke ground on the Suitland, Naylor Road, Southern Avenue, and Congress Heights stations, a $ 900 million project which would complete the final 6. 5 miles ( 10. 5 km ) of the originally-planned 103-mile ( 165. 7 km ) Metrorail system in late 1999.

Almost five million Zentradi warships folded to Earth in response to Dolza's orders.

Almost a half million German MIAs have been buried in new graves since the end of the Cold War.

Almost all of the several million Swabians were expelled from Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia during the period 1944-1950, as part of the ethnic cleansing against their German minorities which in large numbers took part in Nazi Party and in Hitler's army, like notorious 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen and the like.

Almost a year later, construction was completed on April 9, 1965 for $ 18 million, and on the same night the Milwaukee Braves and Detroit Tigers played an exhibition game in the stadium.

Almost forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Almost twenty annals describing Cerdic's campaigns, and those of his descendants appear interspersed through the next hundred years of entries in the Chronicle.

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

Almost 11 years to the day of Dana Plato's death, on May 6, 2010, Plato's son Tyler Lambert died at age 25 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Almost all of these " esperantido " s were stillborn, but the very first, Ido (" Offspring "), had significant success for several years.

Almost one hundred years after Tenji's death, the throne passed to his grandson Emperor Kōnin.

Almost 60 years later, the thief admitted that the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.

Almost blind, and having lived in England for almost fifty years, he died a respected and rich man.

Almost 70 years after Copernicus's death and building on his theories, astronomer Johannes Kepler from Stuttgart was a leader in the 17th century scientific revolution.

Almost two years after Boyer had consolidated power in the west, in 1821, Santo Domingo declared independence from Spain and requested from Simón Bolívar inclusion in the Gran Colombia.

Almost all hedge fund performance fees include a " high water mark " ( or " loss carryforward provision "), which means that the performance fee only applies to net profits ( i. e., profits after losses in previous years have been recovered ).

Almost four years after her marriage in December 1493, Isabella gave birth to her first child out of an eventual total of eight ; it was a daughter, Eleonora, whom they called Leonora for short.

Almost immediately, however, a controversy, which had been begun ten years before and been temporarily silenced, broke out more violently than ever.

Almost all speakers of the Judeo-Berber language left Morocco in the years following its independence.

Almost one hundred years later, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith made the same point in his memoirs:

Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.

Almost 100 years after Governor Parke had expressed his views, one of his successors would speak in similar terms.

Almost fifty years later, Lawrence v. Texas struck down Texas sodomy laws.

Almost exactly three years later, on March 13, railroad service was inaugurated on the Tsugaru Kaikyo Line.

Almost 11 years later, it ended on October 16, 2006, after a reported attendance of 17, 681, which is 326 under the capacity at Pepsi Center, before a game against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Almost 50 years this ship was in service on the river Weser.

Almost 23 years after its original release, the album charted in the United Kingdom for a fortnight in 1987.

Almost two years after his death, approximately one-quarter ounce ( 7 grams ) of Doohan's ashes were sent into space, as he had requested in his will.

Almost at the same time, he was granted permission to spend two years in Paris and London, in order to undergo some practical training in astronomy and also to get some instruments to be specially built for the Palermo Observatory, whose foundation he was in charge of.

Almost ten years later when the post office was built, the community changed its name from Bledsoe's Lick to Castalian Springs.