Sentence examples for and raises almost from inspiring English sources

Born in Uruguay, Miranda resembles a South American Cilla Black, and raises almost as many smiles from the orchestra's octogenarian bandoneónists as she does from an audience who are so impressed that they struggle to know how to react.

Potential cost saving of an episode of cholera is USD 99,201.28 in LIA and raises almost 8 folds in HIA (USD 782,611.60).

This three-part proposal would be clearly superior to the current system, which discourages U.S. multinationals from deploying their foreign profits in the U.S. and raises almost no tax revenues for the U.S.

It quickly became a national success, gaining royal support and raising almost £55m.

Mr. Edwards began last month with $501,000 and raised almost $4 million, but he too spent heavily.

The Curiosity Shop and other attractions at the 1863 Chicago Fair drew 60,000 visitors over 12 days and raised almost $79,000 for the Sanitary Commission's cause.

Eliminating this anomalous kink in the tax schedule by aligning the employee NICS ceiling and the higher-rate threshold would both make sense and raise almost £1 billion a year.However, a sizeable tax shortfall would remain.

We passed a bill through the US Congress which mandated that President Obama support the regional effort to stop the violence, got an unprecedented deployment of US special forces to track down the LRA and raised almost $50m.

Anaplan was founded in 2006 and raised almost $300 million along the way.

It launched in 2006 and raised almost $22 million before being sold for $256 million to Compuware in 2011.

July Systems was founded back in 2001 and raised almost $60 million from a variety of investors including Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, CRV and Motorola Solutions.