This was a period of low prestige and unhappiness for the Spartans, who were actually excluded from the Olympic Games of 420 by their enemies, the people of Elis; they waited 20 years before extracting revenge for this and other insults (but contrary to most modern views, the Olympic ban almost certainly did not last for the whole intervening two-decade period).
Jesse Ferguson almost didn't last until the first bell.
It almost didn't last too long.
Ever sensitive, she said, to the way the political winds were blowing, he tailored his analysis to the politics of the day and hence produced work that, almost by definition, could not last.
"Surely the aim is to make things hard so we can show our great fighting spirit and come back to almost not lose in the last minute?" 43 min: McFadden is lucky to escape a booking after wafting a leg in the general direction of Lazarevski's shin.
The moment was almost entirely rhetorical, and it did not last long.
If this almost idyllic state of affairs did not last, there were two reasons.
The vast change that the last decade has brought to Kabul, a city that has experienced a ten-year boom and which now enjoys almost round-the-clock electricity, will not last, says the manager of a high-end shop selling office computer supplies.
Almost 14% reported that food supplies did not last and there was not enough money to buy more.
This one may or may not last as long as those, but it is almost certainly coming in just days.
He added, "That is of course what lawsuits against the press are almost always about: Not the last story, the one in the lawsuit, but the next story, the one that hasn't been written or filmed and now can't be because there isn't the time or the money to do it".
