The phrase "a drop of nearly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small decrease or reduction in quantity, often in a numerical or statistical context.
Example: "The report indicated a drop of nearly 10% in sales compared to last year."
Alternatives: "a decrease of almost" or "a decline of nearly".
The state comptroller, Nancy Wyman, said yesterday that the state would end the 2001 fiscal year with a surplus of nearly $647 million, a drop of nearly $17 million from the estimate a month ago.
By mid-November, such credit was down to $3 trillion, a drop of nearly 9percentt.
The news touched off a drop of nearly 14percentt in the company's stock.
Atlantic City, meanwhile, experienced its first-ever decline, a drop of nearly six per cent.
In 2002 Eurostar attracted 7.1m, a drop of nearly 5% on the previous year, and half LCR's original forecast.
But the Travel Industry Association predicts a drop of nearly 3percentt in business trips in 2009.
Nevertheless, at the coded levels of beyond 0 coded units, a slight drop of nearly plateau pH curvature could be detected; representing a decrease of 4-CP adsorption at higher pH.
In Whistler, bobsled and skeleton races will cover 1,450 meters, 16 icy turns and a vertical drop of nearly 50 stories.
The decline was partly because of a combined drop of nearly $1 billion for two medicines that recently lost patent protection, allowing generic competitors to be introduced — Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug, and Topamax, an epilepsy treatment.
Even children who made up the control group that did not take part in anti-obesity measures had a weight drop of nearly 4 percent, compared with 5.5 percent for those who did.
Runs in Cervinia and Zermatt are among the longest in the Alps, with a vertical drop of nearly 5,000 feet on the Italian side and more than 7,000 feet on the Swiss side.
