The phrase "a margin of nearly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the difference or gap between two quantities, often in contexts like statistics, finance, or competition.
Example: "The candidate won the election by a margin of nearly 10,000 votes."
Alternatives: "a difference of almost" or "a gap of nearly".
Meanwhile, Obama beat Romney in the state by a margin of nearly 450,000 votes.
Ronald romped into the governorship in 1967 by a margin of nearly two to one.
reruns, on some Thursday nights by a margin of nearly six million viewers.
California voters approved the proposition by a margin of nearly 2 to 1.
It's notable that by a margin of nearly 2-to-1, independents side with Democrats on this.
This month, the district's voters defeated two incumbent Democratic state senators, but chose, by a margin of nearly nine points, to keep Mr. Shuler.
Sanders won Vermont by 86% to Clinton's 13.6% of the vote, a margin of victory nearly five times larger than the margin that Hillary received in her overstate New York primary win.
But the survey by PPP -- which polled 488 voters and has a margin of error of nearly 5 percentage points -- says that most of the rest of the electorate strongly favors immigration reform.
The models that ignored polls had a standard error of 9.8 points in predicting the vote margin (or a simple average error of 8.1 points and a margin of error of nearly 20 points).
Politics here have been thrown into a free-for-all after Panamanians crushed President Ernesto Perez Balladares's hopes for a second term by a resounding margin of nearly 2 to 1. Voters defeated a proposal that would have amended the Constitution to allow him to serve five more years and thereby control the Panama Canal when the United States relinquishes the waterway at the end of next year.
Mr. Gore won that county by a comfortable margin of nearly 15,000 votes.
