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The problem of bifurcation of full-bounded solutions from the trivial one for the family of nonautonomous equations \(x'=\epsilon F(x,t,\mu)\), where \(\epsilon\) and \(\mu\) are parameters, is considered. It is assumed that \(F\) is of the form \(F(x,t,\mu)=g(x,\mu)+k(\mu)h(x,t)\) for some continuous functions \(g\), \(h\), and \(k\) such that \(h\) is almost-periodic in \(t\) uniformly with respect to \(x\) in compact sets, and \(F(0,t,\mu)=0\) for all \((t,\mu)\). Let \(\beta_\mu\) denote the flow generated by the equation \(x'=g(x,\mu)+k(\mu)h_0(x)\), where \(h_0(x)\) is the average of \(h(x,t)\). The main result asserts the existence of a continuum of bounded solutions to the equations with sufficiently small \(\epsilon>0\), bifurcating from some point \((\mu_0,0)\), under assumption that \(\{0\}\) is asymptotically stable for \(\beta_\mu\) if \(a\leq\mu<\mu_0\), \(\{0\}\) is a repeller for \(\mu_0<\mu\leq b\), and the Conley indices of \(\{0\}\) with respect to the flows \(\beta_a\) and \(\beta_b\) are different. The proof is based on applications of the Conley index theory for skew-product flows and previous results of the author on bounded solutions and bifurcation.