The phrase "a collection of almost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a group or assortment that is nearly complete or nearly representative of something.
Example: "The museum features a collection of almost every known species of butterfly."
Alternatives: "an assortment of nearly" or "a grouping of almost".
The exhibition, "1776," is a collection of almost six hundred items loaned from museums, libraries, galleries.
"Politics: Observations & Arguments" (which will be available next week) is a collection of almost 40 years of articles.
Shields recently published her first book, Comfort & Spice, which, rather than being an extension of her blog, is a collection of almost entirely new recipes.
The exhibition, "1776," is a collection of almost six hundred items loaned from museums, libraries, galleries.… The Labour Party chose James Callaghan as Prime Minister after Harold Wilson's unexpected resignation.
Their most famous production was the Ware Collection of Glass Models of Plants, a collection of almost 4,000 models of flowers, plants, and flower parts, made at Dresden between 1887 and 1936 for the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.
There he found a collection of almost 900 photographs taken in the 1920's and 30's of synagogues in southern Germany, before the devastation that began with Kristallnacht in 1938.
After a few years spent riding tractors around his ranch in Texas and tending bar at his in-laws' bowling alley in Pennsauken, in Camden County, he has become the pitching coach of the Surf, a collection of almost-beens, hope-to-bes and never-wases in the independent minor Atlantic League.
It's more than a collection of stories; almost a manifesto for a new way of seeing things.
It is clearly a collection of collections — almost a circus parade of collections — except that we aren't being shown freaks and feats, but objects of daily rural life.
Just take a look at the slideshow below highlighting a collection of their almost cosmically connected outfits.
In addition, RD8 comprises a collection of CDSs of almost every functional category (Appendix Table).
