I had almost begun to believe that I just had a low pain threshold and couldn't handle what normal women could.
The celebrations in the crowd had almost begun, following an outstanding display from McNamara's side, who defied expectations, and the late try was devastatingly cruel.
And then near the end of the book, just when we've almost begun to believe in the nobly martyred icon and sexual victim of the press and the fan letters, we have a wonderful glimpse of a different Beatrice, writing a love letter – more Joyce than Hardy – to the driver who had been ferrying her to the court.
By the time Marianne returned, I had almost begun feeling comfortable standing in a roomful of strangers in my underwear.
Economists say the Japanese economy has almost certainly begun to shrink, and many expect Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines to show recessionary trends once they release their own second-quarter data.
State efforts have almost invariably begun with children, building on the Children's Health Insurance Program, which is jointly financed by the federal and state governments.
From my earliest days as the New York Times bureau chief in Tokyo, I struggled with a veteran Japanese office manager in late middle age, who had almost immediately begun to defy me at every turn.
In the cockpit, as automated systems have become more reliable, and as pilots have grown accustomed to their reliability — this is particularly the case for younger pilots, who have not only trained with those systems from the outset of their careers but grown up in a world filled with computers and automation — they have almost inevitably begun to abdicate responsibility on some deeper level.
El Salvador's frequent experiments with repressive policing have not reduced crime, and Mexico's murder rate has almost doubled since it began cracking down on drug gangs.
