Translation of "Beinahe null" in English

Economic growth in the EU was near zero in 2003.

Its effectiveness in deacidification is often almost zero.

One reflection of this success is the falloff in strike activity to almost zero.

Its independent weight is next to nil.

We set out to build a model that will cut down almost entirely the cost of higher education.

It is seen that during current conduction, the voltage at the thyristor is zero or almost zero.

Thus, the noise of the correction term is reduced almost to zero relative to the measurement term.

Almost no traffic and the country is mainly uninhabited and good for camping.

Therefore, the luminescence signal, which can be read off from the right-hand scale, is almost zero.

The story for the future is that for the time being the European Parliament margin for future expenditure remains pretty much close to zero.

Surveillance of imports of certain Syrian textile products over the last 18 months has shown that the surge of imports into the Community, in 2000, of very low-priced cotton yarn of Category 1 originating in the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria), which had entailed a rise in imports from almost nil in 1996 to 10 % of Community imports in 2000, had stabilised in the first years of the surveillance.

The key issue is that their benefits will be impeded, or even cancelled out by the problems holding back growth in Europe and which have almost brought it back to zero.

Imagine what happens when the cost of getting information from anywhere to anywhere is close to zero.

While this does not do anything about the existing CO2 in the bathtub, CCS is technically capable of reducing emissions from coal and gas close to zero.

Governments managed to limit the damage by pumping huge amounts of money into the global economy and slashing interest rates to near zero.

Against this view, Keynes pointed out that interest-rate reductions may not do the job, because at zero or near-zero rates investors hoard cash rather than lend it out.

Prospects for Japan acting as a global economic locomotive and of playing a role in poverty reduction and economic development are, for now, almost nil.

Fertility reductions in the richer parts of the world have already brought population growth rates close to zero.

Yet as shocking as these statistics are, what is perhaps even more surprising is just how preventable pneumonia and diarrhea are – so much so that it would be quite feasible to introduce measures that by 2025 would reduce their death toll to almost zero.

But in the last seven years, since central banks in developed countries pushed down their base rates almost to zero, we have seen a First-World version of financial repression.

With its benchmark lending rate at the zero-bound, the Fed has embraced a fundamentally different approach in attempting to guide the US economy.

But it would require some extremely unlikely data to change the Fed’s implicit plan to end its purchases of long-term assets (so-called quantitative easing) in October 2014 and to start raising the federal funds rate from its current near-zero level sometime in the first half of 2015.

Imports of SWR from China to the Union had first dropped close to zero subsequent to the imposition of the measures in 1999.

However, exports are likely to slow because of weaker external demand and the contribution of net exports to growth will shrink markedly to almost zero in 2001 and 2002.

However, due to the extremely low abrasion values which are practically near zero, and the excellent compatibility with the body, oxide ceramics are preferred.

Hence follows, it that the gate rotor involute, which is in engagement with the pressure-side main rotor involute, in the end cross section, is designed to be very short, so that the pressure-side blow hole resulting from the geometry is reduced to almost zero.