Almost five million pairs are bought on this day.

Almost one in five adult Americans now report eating at least half a serving of white or brown rice per day.

Almost no rain falls from November to May, but during the remaining five months of the year the city receives around of rain, as compared to in Conakry and in Banjul to the north.

Almost uniquely, five different types of mineral waters are found at Red Boiling Springs.

Almost every child has been infected with rotavirus by age five.

For five hours the New England militia “ kept up the most violent fire that had yet been known in America .” Almost all the French regulars perished, and Dieskau himself was wounded three times ; but he refused to retire, and seated himself on a stump, exposed to the bullets.

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

Almost innumerable are the more familiar themes to which he devoted his brush during this interval: from small single figures, representing smokers or drinkers, to allegories of the five senses ( Hermitage and Brunswick galleries ), half-lengths of fishmongers and bakers, cottage brawls, scenes of gambling, itinerant players and quacks, and ninepins players in the open air.

Almost 40 years later Hunt again posed nude for Litchfield, recreating the pose for her Vogue Magazine cover five weeks after she had had her right breast and lymph glands removed to halt the spread of cancer.

The soundtrack includes five rock singles-the title song and " I'm Free ", both by Kenny Loggins, " Holding Out for a Hero " by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, " Girl Gets Around " by Sammy Hagar, and " Never " by Australian rock band Moving Pictures ( the song played during Bacon's solo dance scene ); three R & B singles-" Let's Hear It for the Boy " by Deniece Williams, " Somebody's Eyes " by Karla Bonoff, and " Dancing In the Sheets " by Shalamar ; and the love theme " Almost Paradise " by Mike Reno from Loverboy and Ann Wilson of Heart.

Almost all Almeras sold in the UK were hatchbacks with three or five doors in contrast to regions such as Ireland, where the saloon version is substantially more commonplace.

Almost five and a half million 15 cm rockets and six thousand launchers were manufactured over the course of the war.

Almost five years have passed since Elphaba has seen Glinda, Boq, or any of her other friends from college and she now lives in the Emerald City, secretly involved in the movement to help free the Animals and get rid of the Wizard of Oz.

Almost every day from five to six in the afternoon, Wagner used to visit Caffé Lavena and stay for half an hour, conversing very often with the owner Carlo Lavena.

Almost 90 percent of them sprang from worker complaints, and five skilled trades accounted for 45 percent.

Almost all that remains of this church is its font, dating from 1700, and its five bells, dating from 1687 and therefore the oldest ring of bells in the diocese.

Almost all the shows were considered sold out as the fans returned after the five year hiatus.

Almost five years later, on May 16, 1959, Republic Act No. 2214 was passed creating seven additional barrios for San Isidro.

Almost immediatelyj after the acquisition, paraffin wax costs climbed from five cents to twenty-one cents a pound due to the Mideast oil embargo in 1974.

Almost one in three Iranian American households have annual incomes of more than $ 100K ( compared to one in five for the overall U. S. population ).

* Almost four in five Internet users and non-users around the world felt that access to the Internet was a fundamental right ( 50 % strongly agreed, 29 % somewhat agreed, 9 % somewhat disagreed, 6 % strongly disagreed, and 6 % gave no opinion ).

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.