[tlhIngan Hol] ordering and scope of adverbials relative to timestamps

I was telling someone about something that happened (completed happening) "almost a year ago" and I said {tlhoS wa' ben [qaSpu' wanI']}. But then I realised that this would be interpreted to mean "one year ago something almost happened", rather than "almost one year ago something happened". But for the latter meaning, I would say {wa' ben tlhoS [qaSpu' wanI']}. Do you consider the sentence order to be fixed (with time stamps always ahead of adverbials, for example), so that changing the order is either wrong or just might affect the emphasis and not the meaning? Or would you interpret the scope to change? How would you say "almost one year ago [something happened]"? {wa' ben tugh [qaSpu' wanI']}? -- De'vID