The phrase "advance to almost" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to indicate progress or movement towards a point that is nearly reached but not fully attained.
Example: "The project has advanced to almost completion, but a few final touches are still needed."
Alternatives: "progress to nearly" or "move towards almost".
The success of this plan depended on a rapid advance to simultaneously almost encircle the Seventh and Eighth Armies in the Judean Hills and capture Liman von Sanders and the Yilderim Army Group general headquarters.
The absence of scientific principles allows economics to be used by politicians to advance almost any program they want to promote and find willing accomplices with respectable credentials to cheer them on.
Both teams advance to the semifinals and will almost definitely meet again in the gold medal game.
To advance to the playoffs, the Panthers almost certainly will have to do so as a wild card, making their Week 12 game against Seattle, vying for one of the same two berths, all the more vital.
The total advance guarantees may come to almost double the budget.
This was the kind of storm that is preceded most richly by anticipation, by the heraldry of radar and rumor, bringing in advance a seasonal glibness to almost everyone in its potential path, everyone, that is, who was not required to travel.
Historians have found it difficult to explain the fact that Mursilis' army was able to advance almost 500 miles down the Euphrates and overcome the defenses of the Mesopotamian capital.
He has the perspicacity and the gall to advance almost any proposal, and this is good.
Read enough political coverage, and you will find someone willing to advance almost any kind of position, despite (or perhaps because of) its being counterintuitive.
Yet while Berlin sometimes suggests that values are human creations, at other times he seems to advance what amounts almost to a theory of natural law, albeit in minimalist, empirical dress.
