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

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

Almost fifty weeks a year, Wyndmoor firefighters meet Mondays from 6: 45PM through 9: 30PM to maintain, test, practice, discuss, and plan for fire and rescue-related events.

Almost fifty years later, after the Second Boer War, and unease that the British Army had been ill-equipped, a new office called the Ordnance Board was created.

Almost fifty percent of the population was wiped out during the attack and almost all buildings were burned down except the Roman Catholic Church which remained undamaged.

Almost fifty lesser members of the family are buried in the crypt.

Almost every major star of the last fifty years played at the Desert Inn.

Almost fifty percent of the surrounding area is under cultivation, most of which is seeded to cereal grain, oilseeds, and other specialty crops.

Almost fifty years later, while sorting out some of his papers, Rock located documents which established his proprietary claim ... and the Academy belatedly gave him his statuette.

Almost fifty years later, on April 23, 1996, during the Russian presidency of Boris Yeltsin, members of the Pannwitz family petitioned for a posthumous verdict of acquittal of the 1946 conviction.

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 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 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.

Almost all scholars agree that the book of Joshua holds little historical value for early Israel and most likely reflects a much later period.

Almost three months later, in the election of September 18, 1867, the Anti-Confederation Party, won 18 out of 19 federal seats, and 36 out of 38 seats in the provincial legislature.

Almost a century later later, this decision would see Sergius ’ name removed from the Diptychs by Patriarch Sergius II of Constantinople.

Almost a year later, on 11 April 1896, the play received its Australian premiere at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney, with eminent local stage actress Jenny Watt-Tanner in the role of Lady Bracknell.

Almost three centuries later, William Gilbert of Colchester replicated Petrus Peregrinus ' work and was the first to state explicitly that Earth is a magnet.

Almost three centuries later much of the area was hit hard in the Great Hunger, especially the west.

" Almost a quarter-century later, Ebert wrote a second review, in which he called Woman Under the Influence " perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes ' films.

Almost all modern x86 operating systems ( Unix, Linux, OS / 2, Windows 95 and later, etc.

Almost a year later, it was reissued on CD-ROM as an enhanced " talkie " edition with full voice acting and digitized sound effects.

Almost all digital cameras, and most later film cameras, measure distance using electroacoustic or electronic means and focus automatically ( autofocus ); however, it is not customary to speak of this functionality as a rangefinder.

Almost two hours of resistance later, England took a 106-run win late in day.

Almost two years later, Marc Antony added to the notoriety of the Rostra by publicly displaying the severed head and right hand of his enemy Cicero there.

Almost eighty years later, in the wake of the Second World War, Emperor Hirohito paid homage to the Oath and reaffirmed it as the basis of " national polity " in his famous Ningen-sengen rescript.

Almost a century later Matthew Flinders surveyed the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1802 and 1803.

Almost 1 year later on January 18, 2009, it hosted the NFC Championship Game as the Arizona Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 for the franchise's first ever Super Bowl berth.