When a younger lover appears, floodgates open in an almost-great film that "has the feel of a clinical case study elevated into a subject of aesthetic and philosophical discourse," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
BITTERSWEET by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore This is one hot mess of an almost-great book.
One evening, my daughter and I took a boat ride up the Colorado, the trip narrated by a crusty old-timer with a great love of the land and an almost equally great suspicion of outsiders.
This study suggests that patients with type 2 diabetes have an almost threefold greater risk of pancreatitis and twofold greater risk of biliary disease than patients without diabetes.
Migraine patients have an almost fourfold greater risk to develop white matter lesions than non-migraine controls [5], and the prevalence of these lesions is higher in migraine with aura than in migraine without aura [4].
In a colon xenograft model, it showed an almost twofold greater effect in inhibition of tumor cell growth compared to Vorinostat (Novoty-Diermayr et al. 2010).
In the youngest (<30 years) age group, ever users of oral contraceptives had an almost threefold greater rate of any death than did never users (adjusted relative risk 2.85, 1.17 to 6.94).
So for every reviewer who griped that Stone was just retreading old tunes by the Isley Brothers et al, another maintained that The Soul Sessions was a startling, almost-great, debut.
Therefore it was surprising that the CGA variation among locations was considerably greater than the differences in total phenolics, with the Wiseman tubers having an almost two-fold greater amount of CGA than the Florida tubers.
Windy conditions were associated with a greater odds (AOR = 5.00, 95% CI, 1.34-18.73) while fog was associated with an almost 3 times greater odds of fatality than clear conditions (AOR = 2.78, 95% CI, 1.11-6.96).
