Almost three decades ago Bertha Reynolds undertook a study of short-contact interviewing because of her conviction that short-term casework had an important but neglected place in our network of social services.

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

Almost all flat panels have a perfectly rectangular array of square pixels, each of which contains three rectangular subpixels in the three primary colors, with the normal ordering being red, green, and blue, arranged in vertical bands.

Almost all works of art depict the three goddesses nude and bare-breasted, but covering their genitals, although some bolder artists show their female parts.

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 all the neutrons created in the Big Bang were absorbed into helium-4 in the first three minutes after the Big Bang, and this helium accounts for most of the helium in the universe today ( see Big Bang nucleosynthesis ).

Almost enclosing it on three sides are rose-coloured mountain walls, divided into groups by deep fissures, and lined with knobs cut from the rock in the form of towers.

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

Almost all Medicare beneficiaries have access to at least two Medicare Advantage plans ; most have access to three or more.

Almost immediately the three upper classes were detached and ordered to sea, and the remaining elements of the academy were transported to Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island by the USS Constitution in April 1861 and setup in temporary facilities and opened there in May.

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

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

Wallace's work onstage includes An Almost Perfect Person in Los Angeles, which she also produced, a tour of the female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, and productions of Same Time Next Year, Twigs, It Had to Be You, Supporting Cast, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Plaza Suite, Gypsy, Promises, Promises, Born Yesterday, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Steel Magnolias and Last of the Red Hot Lovers – in which she played all three roles at various times.

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 all Class C fireworks are allowed for sale and use in Moriarty including firecrackers, mortars, Roman candles, and cakes up to 500 grams ( the maximum allowance ), and though pop rockets have been banned throughout New Mexico for the last three years, larger stick rockets are still allowed.

Almost all of the commercial establishments in Setauket are concentrated in three areas: on Route 25A ( here also known as North Country Road ), Belle Meade Road ( formerly called Terminal Road after the oil terminal ), and on New York State Route 347 / Nesconset Highway.

Almost half of Collingdale's area is made up of four cemeteries, three of which are active.

Almost three years passed before Smetana was declared the winner of Harrach's opera competition.

Almost three decades after its construction, the name of the dam and reservoir was changed to Buffalo Bill Dam by an act of Congress to honor Cody.

According to Clif White, " The three years on MGM were by far the most erratic in Solomon ’ s career, from the sublime " Drown in My Own Tears " on the We ’ re Almost Home album, which is sung to just an acoustic guitar accompaniment, to the ridiculous " Icbyanti W. T.

Almost all Franciscan churches have painted a tau with two crossing arms, both with stigmata, the one of Jesus and the other of Francis ; usually members of the Secular Franciscan Order wear a wooden τ in a string with three knots around the neck.

Almost all public agencies of Norway are subordinate to the government, but three ombudsmen, the Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee and the Office of the Auditor General are directly subordinate to parliament.

Almost three weeks elapsed before Columbia Eagle was allowed to leave.

Almost all of this territory consisted of nations that Russia had absorbed by conquest during the prior several centuries and correspondingly non-Russian speaking population groups.

Almost two centuries after its invention, braille remains a system of powerful and enduring utility.

Almost entirely through luck, Mandella survives four subjectively experienced years of military service, which time dilation makes equivalent to several centuries.

Almost forgotten in this day of strict fire codes is that in centuries past, fires would regularly sweep through cities, frequently destroying large areas of them.

Almost all or a larger part of Rajasthan and Gujarat had been known as Gurjaratra ( country ruled or protected by the Gurjars ) or Gurjarabhumi ( land of the Gurjars ) for centuries prior to Mughal period.

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 three centuries after Revan left to combat the True Sith, it was assumed that he failed as the true Sith Empire finally launched their invasion.

Almost immediately after his death in 323 BC a body of legend began to accumulate about his exploits and life which, over the centuries, became increasingly fantastic as well as allegorical.

Almost two centuries later, Antonio de Villarroel serving Nuño de Guzmán took control of the town on the San Sebastian's day of 1530 ( January 20 ), so renaming the town as " San Sebastián de Aramutarillo ".

Almost all contaminates result from coke production, one of the most common industrial processes of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The concept of a book intended essentially for display over perusal was mentioned much earlier by Michel de Montaigne in his essay Upon Some Verses of Virgil, first published in 1580: " I am vexed that my Essays only serve the ladies for a common movable, a book to lay in the parlor window ..." Almost two centuries later, Laurence Sterne in his 1759 comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman advanced the more lighthearted view that " As my life and opinions are likely to make some noise in the world, and ... be no less read than the Pilgrim's Progress itself-and, in the end, prove the very thing Montaigne dreaded his Essays should turn out, that is, a book for a parlour window ..."

Almost three centuries later, in 1623, Francis Somerford, who now operated the same mill, was making a similar complaint: this time a new forge further up the Penk was reducing water power.

Almost immediately after the foundation of the village in 1218 a weekly market was held and this continued for centuries: Hindon was noted for its market in the mid and late 16th century.

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

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

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

Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.

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

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

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.