1. almost
It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.
We're almost there.
It's possible to study English with a native speaker almost anywhere in the world.
Almost the only time a fat man loses his temper is when he has been deprived of his food.
By the time he retires, my father will have worked for almost thirty years.
It is almost impossible to learn a foreign language in a short time.
The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
It was almost a decade ago, on May 8th, 1980, that Mount St. Helens erupted.
When he reached the station, the train had already left almost half an hour before.
A chance to do as we please, especially to do as little hard work as possible, is a secret desire of almost everybody.
You had better not go out now. It's almost 11.
If you were to fall from that bridge, it would be almost impossible to rescue you.
The gun went off while he was cleaning it, and the bullet almost struck his wife.
Last year, I spent so much time by myself that I almost forgot how to communicate effectively with others.
The bridge between Denmark and Sweden is almost five miles long.