The phrase "a distance of almost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a measurement that is nearly a specific distance but not quite there.
Example: "The hikers traveled a distance of almost ten miles before they decided to set up camp for the night."
Alternatives: "nearly a distance of" or "approximately a distance of".
It gained an altitude of about 50 feet and covered a distance of almost a block.
A source in the Cosmic Evolution Survey field thought to be at a distance of almost 4 billion light years.
An option for stout hikers is to veer northeast through the Schonbuch to Bebenhausen, at a distance of almost four miles.
The sculpted frieze, an exceptional testimony to the artistic mastery of these peoples, contains – over a distance of almost 20 m – more than thirty animal and human depictions.
In the early seventeenth century, the so-called New River was constructed; it carried Hertfordshire spring water, by gravity alone, to Clerkenwell, a distance of almost forty miles.
The gun could fire projectiles weighing up to 1,785 pounds (810 kg) to a distance of almost six miles (9 km).
The solar wind compresses the magnetic field on Earth's dayside at a distance of about 10 Earth radii, or almost 65,000 km (40,000 miles) from the planet.
In a high-latitude region in East Africa, Pocillopora verrucosa showed strong genetic differentiation across a distance of about 1,000 km, a scale almost the same as that of this study [21].
For instance, a physical distance of almost 10 Mb of rice chromosome Os02 (position 8.5 Mb – 18.2 Mb) corresponded to a small interval of barley Hv6H at approximately 53 – 60 cM.
(1) A highroad of Italy, constructed in 187 B.C. by the consul M. Aemilius Lepidus, from whom it takes its name; it ran from Ariminum to Placentia, a distance of 176 m. almost straight NW, with the plain of the Po (Padus) and its tributaries on the right, and the Apennines on the left.
Listen, if a woman can survive being hit by a car going 70MPH, knocking her the distance of almost half a football field, what's your excuse for not succeeding at anything you set your mind to accomplish?
