The plan depends on a private operator's willingness to run it, and almost certainly on some public subsidy to start and perhaps to maintain it.
Philippe Herreweghe conducted his Collegium Vocale Gent in an unshowy performance almost lost on some of us sitting to the rear of St John's, Smith Square.
From Salma Hayek's Alexander McQueen ballgown to Reese Witherspoon's sparkling beige Calvin Klein column, from Emily Blunt in Michael Kors to Rosamund Pike in Vera Wang, white was traditional, almost bridal, on some.
Sitting in a church lounge, where some of the quieter songs were recorded, the band members laughed readily about the more laborious aspects of the sessions: the arduous load-in, which required the services of a moving company, and the oppressive heat, which comes across almost tangibly on some of the tracks.
The Indian high commissioner in Sri Lanka, Mr J.N. Dixit, believed he was on the right track when he got the Tigers to agree to accept almost half (on some disputed accounts, a majority) of the seats on the interim council that is to run the new, merged province.
In the year since, annual house price inflation has reached almost 10% on some measures, and mortgage lending to first-time buyers has reached its highest levels since the crash; however transaction levels still remain historically low, and housebuilding is not keeping up with demand.
Spring flooding to some degree occurs almost annually on some Minnesota rivers, but major floods have occurred in 1965, 1969, 1997, 2001, and 2009.
Additionally, debate about the nature of the cancer risk associated with radiation has become almost ideological on some matters, such as the nature of the dose-response relationship, and further evidence may help to bring this distracting debate to a close.
As is the case with other Indian coalfields, Singrauli is home to numerous coal-fired thermal electricity plants, some almost on the doorstep of the mines.
Packed together are stars, some appearing almost on top of each other; compact clusters of stars; misty patches of glowing gas – nebulae – which are cosmic factories poised to create the next generation of stars.
