The phrase "a substantially complete" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something is nearly finished or has most of the necessary components.
Example: "The report is a substantially complete draft, but it still needs some final edits before submission."
Alternatives: "almost complete" or "largely finished".
One is a substantially complete work about her brothers; another, an extremely fragmentary piece apparently about unrequited love.
For a long time, though, this remained an academic detective problem rather than a commercial issue as even the prospect of a substantially complete new Dumas novel failed to excite French publishers.
The only other bird for which a substantially complete genome sequence is available is the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).
This is consistent with prior demonstrations that a length release of activated fibers results in a substantially complete crossbridge detachment and increases myoplasmic Ca2+ [41], reflective of Ca2+ release from activated, Ca2+-bound thin filaments.
This study addresses some of the shortcomings of previous studies by drawing the study population from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours (NRCT), which holds a substantially complete record of all childhood cancers registered in the United Kingdom between 1962 and 2006 (Stiller et al, 1998).
The effects of a number of flame retardants (CF3I, CF3Br, and CF3H) on the high-temperature reactions of methane with air in a plug flow reactor are studied by numerical simulations using the Sandia Chemkin Code.1 The dependence of (a) the ignition delay and (b) time for substantially complete reaction as a function of temperature and additive concentrations are calculated.
The completeness of ascertainment of childhood cancer cases in the NRCT has varied over time, but it contains a substantially (>97%) complete record of all registered cases of childhood cancer in the Britain from the early 1970s (Kroll et al, 2011a; Stiller, 2007).
"What we want to do is have a business that is performing well... enabling the government to start selling shares from, let's say, the middle of 2014 on - it could be earlier, that's a matter for the government - but certainly we think the recovery process will be substantially complete in about a year or so's time".
A DNA sequencing maverick is joining with the world's largest maker of automated sequencing machines to form a new company that they say will "substantially complete the sequence" of the entire human genome in 3 years.
He left the vocal score substantially complete and had made a start on the orchestration.
Ultimately, as noted by the NRC (1994, 2009), a probabilistic framework will provide a substantially more complete quantitative characterization of hazard.
