Sentence examples for a drop of almost from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a drop of almost" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a small amount of something that is nearly a certain quantity, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "There was a drop of almost a liter of water left in the bottle."
Alternatives: "a hint of nearly" or "a trace of almost".

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That is a drop of almost 1,000 fans a month.

America's postal service saw a drop of almost 14%, or 28 billion items, in the year to September.

This was evident in the $4.2 billion decline in noninterest expenses in the quarter, a drop of almost 4 percent.

But its own figures show a drop of almost half in the cocaine seized between 2005 and 2010.

In the City, the FTSE 100 ended 66.56 points lower at 6639.71, a drop of almost 1%.

There were 29.7m albums downloaded in 2014, down 9% on the year before, while 52.7m CDs were bought – a drop of almost 7%.

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Heat a frying pan on low temperature until a drop of water almost starts to dance around when dropped on the surface.

After a hair-raising run down the mountain and a vertical drop of almost 2,897 feet into the final straightaway at more than 85 miles an hour, Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin caught an edge with his left ski.

According to the IUCN, giraffe populations have fallen from about 157,000 in 1985 to 97,500 today – a population drop of almost 40%.

I vividly recall how a huge drop of almost 800 points in the Dow Jones industrial average in late September 2008 changed the minds of House Republicans on the TARP legislation (a Bush proposal, by the way).

The 397 firearm incidents recorded last year equate to an average drop of almost two thirds.

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