The phrase "all but perfect" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is nearly perfect, with only minor flaws or imperfections.
Example: "The presentation was all but perfect, with just a few minor errors in the data."
Alternatives: "almost perfect" or "nearly flawless."
The choice of the cast is all but perfect, and the photography is impressively fine, even in this day when such perfection is more or less common.
"Please Give" is like a finely wrought short story, and it's all but perfect.
Mr. Hairr, who grew up in North Carolina, said the setting was all but perfect.
Still more unusual among celebrity memoirs is that Reeves describes a childhood that was all but perfect.
The sentiment, however, has never remotely been returned; his obscurity in this country is all but perfect.
The weather here has been chilly for most of the last 10 days but for the climax of the tournament the conditions were all but perfect.
Your correspondent can understand why.On the one hand, he appreciates the way digital cameras let him experiment endlessly by taking numerous shots of a scene, each time with a different exposure setting, and then deleting or editing the less successful ones until an all-but perfect image remains.
There are tons of racing games on the iPhone, and it is becoming super clear that the device is all-but perfect for the genre.
I want all of you actors to just stop.' " Mr. Bridges admits that his memory doesn't quite jibe with the finished film, which uses a series of freeze frames to halt the actors in their tracks a touch of emphatic existential dread that may be the only questionable note in an all-but-perfect movie.
A startup, Gigabell has negligible revenues, but investors began discounting an all-but-perfect future of high revenue growth and easy-to-get credit to build out its network.
Fortunately, Coach Norv Turner has all but perfected that befuddled-coach look on the sideline.
