The Western was moving outside its frame, until it almost disappeared altogether.
Over the years, it has had a series of owners – it almost disappeared in 1993, when the Radio Authority failed to renew its licence – but is now in the hands of Global Radio and broadcasts from the offices in Leicester Square that also house the company's other stations: Capital, Classic FM, XFM, Heart, Gold and Smooth.
I have seen terrible, evil things, sights to make a hard man flinch, but, listening to the women that night, my heart recoiled so violently it almost disappeared.
The thing about Genesis, they wrote songs, they had spirit, but people watered it down, they missed the point, it got a bad name and it almost disappeared.
Built in 1948 as a roadside attraction, it almost disappeared, but was luckily purchased by a couple who have been slowly restoring the three-acre miniature world built from mortar and stone.
Leprosy was endemic in Europe until it almost disappeared in the 16th Century, explained another member of the research team, Stewart Cole from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, (EPFL).
But the result is oddly minor, so local in its ambit that it almost disappears.
The prop, who weighs an imposing 19st 7lb, fills the chair so completely that it almost disappears beneath his powerful frame.
In recent years, the technical level has risen high enough to give their parodies an edge so fine it almost disappears.
