The 1998 total was 1,850, which was almost certainly fewer than a decade earlier.
Birch said the number of exemptions the N.F.L. has granted for players who need treatment for A.D.H.D. is "almost certainly fewer" than 4.4 percent of those in the league.
And over the next few months, a handful of pollsters, tacticians and statisticians on each side, almost certainly fewer than two dozen political pros in all, will be scrutinizing socioeconomic data in Washington and Virginia as a part of their targeting work -- sometimes they also call it microtargeting -- in the coming general election.
There are almost certainly fewer than 10,000 remaining across the entire continent, and wherever they are found, they are mercilessly persecuted.
This is almost certainly too few unless its risk is made vanishingly small.
Even if the next few go ahead as planned, NASA will almost certainly fly fewer missions than the 28 it had once hoped for.
The result could be ugly: Bangladesh would almost certainly have fewer birthdays to celebrate.
Windows below the 150-foot level will almost certainly be fewer and smaller, and views will be limited.
In a military tribunal, officials said, Mr. Moussaoui would almost certainly have fewer procedural rights to seek testimony from witnesses, including the captured Qaeda leaders.
If you cannot eat bread, bagels, cake, cookies, ice cream, candy, crackers, muffins, sugary soft drinks, pasta, rice, most fruits and many vegetables, you will almost certainly consume fewer calories.
