So they signalled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; they came, and they filled both the boats so that they almost sank.

A Captain in the Roman army had a slave whom he valued, and who was seriously ill--almost at the point of death.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he was going, the crowds of people almost crushed him.

And it came to pass, as the days were almost fulfilled of his being received up again into heaven, that He set his face to go to Jerusalem,

[So the gentleman concluded], 'I tell you, to every person who [already] has something, [more] will be given, but from that person who has [almost] nothing, even [the little] he has will be taken away from him.

It was when Jesus had almost reached Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, that he sent on two of the disciples.

When he had almost reached the place where the road led down the Mount of Olives, every one of the many disciples began in their joy to praise God loudly for all the miracles that they had seen:

But they kept him back, saying, Do not go, for evening is near, the day is almost gone. And he went in with them.