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The phrase "a total of almost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express an approximate quantity or amount that is being summed up.
Example: "The project received a total of almost 500 applications from interested candidates."
Alternatives: "approximately" or "nearly".
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The entire team was on a monthly retainer of nearly £40,000 – a total of almost £500,000 a year.
By purchase and condemnation, the county has assembled a total of almost 1,300 contiguous acres.
By 2002, 15 oil companies had paid a total of almost $440 million.
The other top 3 challengers had a total of almost 27percentt.
Less expensive Web efforts balance the sleek TV ads, for a total of almost 60 videos.
That amounts to a total of almost 5 million people who do not think making a false claim is wrong.
He said that a total of almost 100 million MiJOS, Homies and Homie Clowns have been sold.
By 2006, publishing in New York had added about 1,000 jobs, for a total of almost 28,000.
There are fewer than 10 charter schools serving a total of almost 1,300 children in Washington state.
We report here the analysis of the majority of UK Biobank, a total of almost 350,000 subjects.
It thus became the largest state, passing New York, which grew 1.2 million to a total of almost 18 million.
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