Sentence examples for almost one millennium from inspiring English sources

A scroll of classical calligraphy dating back almost one millennium has been sold at an auction in Beijing for $64 million, which appears to be the largest amount ever paid at auction for a single piece of Chinese art, according to reports on Friday by several official Chinese news organizations.

On 31 July 2013 Italian prisons counted 64,873 detainees, almost one per 1,000 inhabitants.

Of the 14,618 mouse genes annotated through the union of all libraries, almost one half (7,060) had at least one putative CDS reconstructed at > 99%, 9,290 at > 90%, and 10,104 at > 80%, of the total expected length.

Two previously described founder mutations, 1675delA and 1135insA, were found to account for more than half (11/21) of all BRCA1 cases and for almost one third (11/35) of all breast and ovarian cancers.

New agreements dropped by almost one thousand from 2,145 in 2008 to 1,183 in 2011 before recovering in 2013 14.

Almost one quarter (24.85 %) of the students have a first language different from German.

Almost one third (24/81, 30%) of isolates were ≤96% identical to any of the reference nox sequences, and did not cluster with reference sequences in the phylogenetic analysis (see below).

The recession likely was the major cause of the decline in the unauthorized immigrant population, which fell by almost one million between 2007 and 2009.

Dwayne (Pearl) Washington of Syracuse University surprised almost no one yesterday when he announced he would give up his final year of eligibility to enter the National Basketball Association draft.

It arrives in theaters on April 10 , 2015 almost one year after it was originally slated to open.

By mapping Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) back to the Drosophila genome, Boutanaev et al. [ 5] observed almost one thirds of 1661 testis-specific genes are clustered on chromosomes.