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The phrase "a total of nearly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express an approximate quantity or amount that is close to a specific total.
Example: "The project received a total of nearly 500 applications from interested candidates."
Alternatives: "approximately" or "around".
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The CBO projects that by the end of 2016, the deficit will have dropped to $433 billion, for a total of nearly a trillion dollars in deficit reduction in six years.
A total of nearly 780 apartments had been planned.
Those programs serve a total of nearly 18,800 children.
About 85 nations signed or ratified a total of nearly 300 treaties and conventions.
He has spent a total of nearly $160 million in the last two campaigns.
The six leading primary campaigns have listed a total of nearly 2,000 bundlers.
The UnitedHealth Group currently has a total of nearly 1,200 employees in the three operations.
Ismail told me that a total of nearly thirty-eight thousand were being held.
The work closed two parking lots having a total of nearly 300 metered spaces.
On her five flights, she had spent a total of nearly 211 days in space.
The group has designated a total of nearly 525,000 minor planets in our solar system.
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