def METHOD_NAME(text: str) -> str:
    """Remove almost everything from text
    Args:
        text (str): Text to be cleaned.
    Returns:
        str: The cleaned text.
    """
    # Add spaces around numbers
    text = re.sub("([\.,%:\d\-]*[\d]+[\.,%:\d\-]*)", r' \1 ', text)
    # Remove some chars
    text = re.sub("[:;\\|!?%#@%\&=><\-\*\+\^]", " ", text)
    # Remove dots not preeceded by a letter or number
    text = re.sub("[^A-Za-z0-9]+\.", "", text)
    # Remove commas not in-between numbers
    text = re.sub(",([^0-9])|([^0-9]),", r"\2\1 ", text)
    # Remove multi-spaces and tabs
    text = re.sub("\t+", " ", text)
    text = re.sub("[ ]+", " ", text)
    # Remove any character that appears more than 2 times in a row,
    #unless it is a number
    text = re.sub(r'([^0-9]{1})\1{2,}', r'\1\1', text)
    return text.strip().lower()