A quietly cheerful man who has grown portly on an island where life's rigors keep almost everyone slim, Ruben is one of the few English speakers here.
But years of time and money and attention mean that she is now almost improbably slim and honed and beautifully turned out.
She is almost androgynously slim, partial to trousers, men's shirts, and, for panache, a casually tossed-on white fur jacket.
Seats such as Weston-super-Mare, Devon West, Taunton and Eastleigh have majorities almost as slim in percentage terms.The Liberal Democrats may be particularly vulnerable because of the widespread perception that the party has moved sharply left.
But Leeves and Malick, though strikingly attractive, both look almost alarmingly slim this year.
Behind the slim, almost fragile advancing figures is a long row of tall, sturdy trees.
That might help get foreign governments off China's back, but it will do almost nothing to slim America's huge trade deficit.
Williams is of modest height (five feet four), and slim, almost preternaturally so — "It's the thing I share with my dad.
Take a good look at your new patients.' I watched one senior executive in the garden of his villa, a suntanned man in his fifties with a slim, almost adolescent body, springing lightly on his diving board.
Though being positive, however, it is quite slim, almost approximate to zero, indicating that the two observations are possibly uncorrelated.
