"When rail franchising was introduced, the railway ran at a £2bn-a-year loss in terms of its day-to-day costs but today, it virtually covers its running expenses.
The presence of the ice, which for a time virtually covered Canada, makes it reasonable to assume that the southern reaches of North America were settled before Canada, and that the Inuit (Eskimo) who live in Canada's Arctic regions today were the last of the aboriginal peoples to reach Canada.
Some videos are virtually covered with thousands of lines of text, which can be filtered or turned off.
"Embrace" is an understatement, with social media virtually covered in HRC logos, easily among the more successful designs Anastasia has created for HRC.
A car that has its surface virtually covered in small objects is often referred to as a "gluey".
The circumstances and the punishment were unprecedented, with Commissioner David Stern rebuking the Spurs for sending away four healthy starters "virtually under cover of darkness".
But in an indication of the perils awaiting Macedonia's new peace pact, ethnic Slav and Albanian politicians signed the agreement virtually under cover of darkness yesterday to avoid protests from Slavs.
In the interim came The Beatles, a double LP commonly known as the White Album for its virtually featureless cover.
That is virtually everything covered - except for legally binding documents.
