Marilyn Manson, it almost immediately transpired, had not featured in any way on the killers' Top-10 playlists.
The memo written by Jeremy Hunt in November about News Corp's BSkyB bid seems to explain almost everything that transpired in relation to the bid over the succeeding six months or so.
While it's doubtful that a mob could break into a state prison in 2009 and lynch an inmate, it's not difficult to imagine a scenario in which something almost as bad transpired.
Eric Blair's birthplace, it transpired, was almost, but not quite, a cowshed.
This is a series of events that could have transpired in almost any decade of the American century.
What has transpired is almost unthinkable.
Jacobs at first handed the daily management of this to his chief clerk, Edward Marke, but it transpired that Marke knew almost nothing about the merchandising business, and so Jacobs was forced to look elsewhere.
"I think looking at the atmosphere compared to last year and what has transpired the stakes are almost higher," Jenkins told reporters last Thursday, in an apparent reference to the rhetoric of Donald Trump and the rise of white supremacist groups.
After the excruciatingly sloppy play produced by the two squads in the morning, what transpired in the afternoon was almost sublime.
You can almost hear the conversation that must have transpired at some point between the conception of the Metropolitan Opera's current production of Gounod's "Faust" and the debut of that staging, offered last season.
Of course, it later transpired that the French were almost entirely responsible for the BSE outbreak, with their cannibalistic cattle feeding policy.
