The phrase "a decrease of almost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a reduction in quantity, size, or degree that is nearly but not quite a specific amount.
Example: "The report indicated a decrease of almost 20% in sales compared to last year."
Alternatives: "a nearly 20% reduction" or "a drop of nearly".
This year, however, there was just under seven, which is a decrease of almost 40% and the lowest number in the past 10 years.
Employers who used two or more of these strategies last year saw a decrease of almost five per cent in their pharmacy spending.
Fosamax had global sales of $1.55 billion last year, a decrease of almost 50percentt compared with 2007, according to a Merck financial statement.
Reducing the standard deviation from input factors through the use of adequate controlling measures led to a decrease of almost 50% in the tolerance intervals.
Due to the smoother interaction between moving and stationary parts, turbulent kinetic energy undergoes a decrease of almost an order of magnitude.
Each hour of moderate exercise or half-hour of vigorous activity was associated with a decrease of almost 4 milligrams per deciliter of LDL cholesterol in white women, and more than 10 milligrams for black women.
The only demographic registering a decrease, of an almost negligible 4%, was 3rd grade to 6th grade, perhaps because children of that age group are especially afraid of being shunned or harassed for their appearance.
The recent advent and rapid development of new generations of very-high-throughput DNA sequencing methods makes it now possible to foresee that in the next few years the sequencing and assembly of thousands of human genomes (and transcriptomes) will be achievable at a cost of $1,000 each or less, which is a projected decrease of almost a million-fold in less than ten years.
In fact, compared with the more rigid 2, host 10, where the rigidity of the cone structure is maintained by hydrogen bonding of the OH of the lower rim, a decrease of efficiency of almost one order of magnitude was observed.
In 2030, the potential total social cost estimated at the amount of 3.3 billion dollars, a potential decrease of almost 54 % of the amount of damage relative to the BAU state.
In our study, lactate exhibited a significant decrease of almost 50% of basal median values during the first 6 h of resuscitation associated with a rapid normalization of other metabolic and peripheral perfusion parameters (Figure 1).
