Sentence examples for town of almost from inspiring English sources

Gwoza, a hill town of almost half a million people, is the capital of its self-declared caliphate.

First of all, the places to see and be seen in this town of almost 9,000 are the Blarney Station Pub and the Candlewyck Diner.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND This town of almost 5,000, shaped like a backwards "L," is bordered to the southeast and south by New Canaan and Stamford in Connecticut, and otherwise surrounded by Bedford and Lewisboro.

The Republic of Boulder, as Boulder, Colorado, is fondly known, is a town of almost 100,000 people nestled up against the red sides of the Flatirons in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.

"This is a story that is the complete opposite of what the school is in business for - helping students achieve their aspirations and goals," said Paul Kadri, the superintendent of schools in this town of almost 18,000 people.

As Mr. Hashimoto spoke, sirens began to wail, in one of the routine checks of emergency-response systems that this town of almost 18,000 residents has held since the accident in March at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 36 miles away.

It is an unincorporated town of about 8500 people, almost all over sixty.

And around the corner on 61st Street, they are building a five-story attached town house of almost 10,000 square feet, with about 5,000 square feet of outdoor space and a private entrance.

A 2,850-square-foot ground-floor apartment was recently on the market for nearly $20 million, and a full town house of almost 11,000 square feet sold for about $30 million in 2006.

In the next half hour, it emerged — from Twitter, phone calls, and e-mails from my daughter's elementary school — that a Union Pacific train carrying crude oil had derailed near the small town of Mosier, Oregon, almost directly across the Columbia River from where I live.

After his arrest in his home town of Amstetten almost a year ago, the sickening details of his crimes, which were rapidly made public, were almost unbearable to read.