(Elwood's Illinois driver's license number is an almost-valid encoded number, with Dan Aykroyd's own birth date embedded).
At least the home secretary's passport is almost certainly valid, which puts her in a better position than the many tens of thousands who are waiting for travel documents, unsure whether their own holiday fortnights will be spent relaxing on a beach in the Algarve or sweating in a queue in HMPO's regional office in Peterborough.
Earlier this week, California's Supreme Court reaffirmed the state's position on noncompete clauses: they're almost never valid, except for in a few specific circumstances.
The view institutionalized by animal research oversight committees is that almost any valid research objective justifies sacrificing even the most fundamental interests of non-human animals (Francione 1995).
We also show that these bounds are equivalent to the Harnack inequality except for peculiar regions, and are therefore almost always valid.
The biggest was in Iowa, where the day before the filing deadline Theresa Greenfield's campaign manager told her that he'd forged signatures on her petition and she had 24 hours to get almost 2,000 valid ones, including dozens from small rural counties with few Democrats.
Despite these differences, the results of Homolonto are consistent, proposing almost exclusively valid pairs in a first series of iterations covering approximately half of the smaller ontology: 250 iterations for Xenopus/zebrafish, 1400 iterations for human/mouse.
User feedback is almost never a valid description of the problem".
The presence of that community of commenters and the attitude that the Guardian website takes – which is that that's as valid almost as the initial contribution that they've commissioned – is, I think, very dangerous to interesting writing.
