Young and apparently indefatiguable, the squad has arrived almost unckanged from there with the same five men joining the world's top girl player Hou Yifan in the open section, though just one of the two women in Liverpool was in Nizhny Novgorod - 18-year-old Shen Yang, who joins 16-year-old Ding Yixin.
Well, the day has arrived, almost, and I won't pretend I like it.
Rahman had arrived almost a month before the fight, saying he wanted the extra time to adjust.
I checked my watch to find that I had arrived almost 15 minutes late, but when I peeked into the theater, the curtains were still down.
The Human Rights Act may have arrived almost a millennium later, but there is a respectable argument that it would be similarly tricky to repeal.
In the speech to the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation last October, he described himself as having arrived "almost exhausted, just having poured it all out to get where I thought I wanted to go".
Even briefer was the smile, almost a shy look of self-satisfaction, from a 26-year-old Brazilian who had arrived, almost unheralded, in German soccer from the Swiss leagues where he had settled as a teenager.
One or more cinematic behemoths — those loaded with similar-looking computer-generated effects, films that cost $130 million to $225 million to make — have arrived almost weekly since May, fragmenting and fatiguing the audience.
I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor.
Watching Handsworth Songs now (or Isaac Julien's 1984 film, Territories), one sees not just the articulation of a political position, or an emotion, but the emergence of an aesthetic that seemed to have arrived almost fully formed from the start, in several places and in different media, whose pleasures were matched only by their complexity and refusal of easy categorisation.
The novella ends, somewhat didactically, with the artist regaining his pacifist resolve, but there is no missing the fact that he has arrived at it almost entirely through weakness.
