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

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 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 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.