Almost a half of the country's land is covered by forests, though only 3. 5 % is covered by primary forests.

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 all keyboards have only the switch at each intersection, which causes " ghost keys " and " key jamming " when multiple keys are pressed ( see rollover ).

Almost half of Shakespeare's plays are set in Italy, many of them containing details of Italian laws, customs, and culture which Oxfordians believe could only have been obtained by personal experiences in Italy, and especially in Venice.

Almost immediately after his election, Eugene was forced to deal with the heresy of Monothelitism, i. e., that Christ had only one will.

Almost all housing is owned by the various employers and institutions and rented to their employees ; there are only a few privately owned houses, most of which are recreational cabins.

Almost completely unable to produce any words or phrases, he was able to repetitively produce only the word tan.

Almost all of the fair's structures were designed to be temporary ; of the more than 200 buildings erected for the fair, the only two which still stand in place are the Palace of Fine Arts and the World's Congress Auxiliary Building.

Almost from his coronation, Paul withdrew and became inaccessible: audiences were only granted at night ; even good friends waited a fortnight to see him ; his suspiciousness was widely attested.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Almost any laminar ( flat ) material can be used for folding ; the only requirement is that it should hold a crease.

Almost all classical Greek paintings and sculptures have been destroyed, and only Roman copies or notes of them exist, like the passages of Plato that ascribe Phidias ' works to him.

Almost any organization posing any conceivable danger to public order in the broadest sense is forbidden by the still extant Wet vereniging en vergadering (" Law of association and assembly ") of 1855, but this law only very rarely leads to an official disbandment of an organization as a legal entity under the civil code.

Almost all housing is owned by the various employers and institutions and rented to their employees ; there are only a few privately-owned houses, most of which are recreational cabins.

Almost all of the prizes have been created in the twentieth century, and only two prizes were awarded before 1780.

Almost all woodworking on the ship has been done using axes and adzes, with saw marks found on only a few timbers.

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 the entire town can be viewed from 313 with only a few streets diverging from the main road.

Almost all modern video equipment has at least composite connectors, so this typically is not a problem ; however, older video equipment and some very low-end modern televisions have only RF input ( essentially the antenna jack ); while RF modulators are no longer common, they are still widely available to translate baseband signals for older equipment.

Almost six months later, on 9 / 10 / 1973, Ali avenged the Norton loss, but only just, when he got the return by another split-decision.

Almost all electronic mail messaging was also using Greeklish, and only recently, with the introduction of full Unicode compatibility in modern e-mail client software and gradual replacement of older programs, that usage of Greek characters became widespread.

Almost all engineering drawings ( except perhaps reference-only views or initial sketches ) communicate not only geometry ( shape and location ) but also dimensions and tolerances for those characteristics.

Almost every football club in Podgorica has its own stadium, although these are often only fields with small stands or no stand at all.

Almost 400 of Columbia's 529 two-reel comedies were released to television in the late 1950s ; to date, only the Stooges, Keaton, and short films starring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Joe DeRita have been released to home video.

Almost every edition of Tiswas was transmitted live and only recorded in case of any future IBA investigation ( as was standard practice at the time ).

Almost immediately to the north is the site of the former Longbridge car factory and beyond that Birmingham.

Almost all fast food meat products are factory made from cheap cuts of meat and supplied to the snackbar frozen.

Almost all production was shut down, and the factory halls were turned into market areas and trading centers.

Almost any sphere of technology can prove to be a progress trap, as in the example of medicine and its possibly inadequate response to the drawbacks of the high-density agricultural practices ( e. g. factory farming ) it has enabled.

Almost all of the ghosts choose to return instead to the grey town, giving various reasons and excuses.

Almost half the population of Sarpsborg stayed behind, and rebuilt their old town at its original site.

In spring of 1997 Hollywood came to this small quiet town to film " Almost Heroes " starring Matthew Perry and Chris Farley.

Almost half of the land in the town is owned by three public water supply companies and the State of Connecticut.

Almost as soon as the town established itself as a commercial center larger, even, than Westerly, however, it was quickly bypassed by the effects of the Industrial Revolution, which favored larger towns astride similarly larger rivers to erect huge mills.

Almost all of the town was destroyed on April 11, 1965, by an F4 tornado, which was part of the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak.

Almost all single family homes in the town were destroyed, many of which were moved off their foundation as many as 100 feet.

Almost 5 miles of I-90 runs from the west-southwest to east-northeast through Auburn and is six lanes wide ( three each direction ) through the town.

Almost as soon as the foundational structure of the town was laid, an influx of Norwegian immigrants arrived, by way of the Scandinavian migration of Chicago and Minneapolis, often arriving by the Great Northern Railway.

Almost every building in the town of 350 people was damaged.

Almost with the first settlement in the town, Appleton Foote, as the agent of Gilchrist and Fowler, erected a saw mill at what is now Brushton, and a grist mill there in the year following, which was displaced by the present stone mill in 1823, built by Robert Watts, and later improved and enlarged by Henry N.

Almost all of the town was burned by Union troops in 1862.

Almost every town in the Netherlands has a street named after him.

Almost all of the permanent structures in the town were built during the American occupation of the site.

Almost half of the economically active population of Frome commute to work outside the town ( in Bath, Bristol, Warminster, Westbury or further afield ).

Almost all of the most important Middle Byzantine churches in and around Athens were built during these two centuries, and this reflects the growth of the town in general.

Almost a decade later, in 1929, a statue of Evangeline — posed for by silent Mexican film star Dolores del Río, who starred in the 1929 film Evangeline-was donated to the town of St. Martin Louisana by the film's cast and crew.

Entitled, " Deep River: Almost the Perfect Place to Live ," the article took a sardonic take on the town as a very odd and isolated place populated by mostly young, male, highly educated and bored scientists and technicians struggling to find things to do with their time: " The Utopian town where our atomic scientists live and play has no crime, no slums, no unemployment and few mothers-in-law.

Almost all of Morotai's numerous villages are coastal settlements ; a paved road linking those on the east coast starts from Daruba and will eventually reach Berebere, the principal town on Morotai's east coast, from Daruba.

Almost 3, 500 people live in the town and its surroundings areas.

Almost the entire population of Balaklava at one time worked at the base ; even family members could not visit the town of Balaklava without a good reason and proper identification.

Almost all residents of the town rent their housing from Voyages, but government leases some housing for its employees.