Sentence examples for almost keep from inspiring English sources

The phrase "almost keep" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where someone is close to maintaining or holding onto something but ultimately fails to do so.
Example: "I almost keep my resolutions every year, but by February, I usually give up."
Alternatives: "nearly maintain" or "close to holding on".

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And Dana can almost keep up with his top runners.

At his prime, Powell had the speed and dexterity to almost keep up with Parker and Gillespie in his soloing.

Legoland Hotel California The interactive features and Lego-themed rooms at this hotel could almost keep guests busy enough not to venture into the park  itself.

Typically, fuel mixture lower flammability limits almost keep constant at different fractions of added nitrogen; and approximately upper flammability limits of fuel mixture vary linearly with the addition of nitrogen except those mixtures containing ethylene.

The results showed that CP of the hydrogels with PEO23 dihydrazide crosslinking almost keep intact with increasing crosslinking ratios because the phase transition depends mainly on the structure of the hydrophobic moiety.

And additionally, the average Nusselt and Sherwood numbers almost keep constant during the conduction and diffusion dominated stage, and then increase with the increase of Rayleigh number or buoyancy ratio during the convection dominated stage.

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Two things almost kept me from picking up this book.

The flow stress almost keeps constant with the increase of strain.

In addition, the turbine efficiency almost keeps the designed value under the off-design conditions.

A collapsed lung almost kept her from graduation.

"That was the thing that almost kept me from doing it," Mr. Black said.

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