The phrase "almost a consensus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a general agreement among a group, but not complete unanimity.
Example: "After much discussion, we reached almost a consensus on the new policy changes, with only a few members expressing dissent."
Alternatives: "nearly unanimous agreement" or "broad agreement with some dissent".
"He doesn't talk about wins, but it wasn't that long ago that his idea of a transition was unpopular – now there is almost a consensus," said one friend.
"I think a haircut or partial default will be necessary, " he said, "and my sense is that this is almost a consensus among German economists".
BY now, it's almost a consensus among Internet pundits that the future of the Web rests in the hands -- or, perhaps more appropriately, the palms -- of those who make wireless Internet devices and software.
Rajoub has warned that if the Fifa congress did not vote in favour of its motion it would take the issue to the court of arbitration in sport: " I think there is almost a consensus amongst member associations against racism, against the five clubs from the settlements and for our right to have free movement and access.
Jack Straw, secretary of state for Justice, said as much on Monday in the debate following his statement on prisons: "What we know is this: of course it is true – there is almost a consensus on it in the House – that where possible, offenders should not be sent to prison".
But a slowing economy is probably an even surer way of losing an election.So there is almost a consensus that reforms are needed urgently, and Mr Singh has been talking again like the reformist he was, as the architect, when finance minister, of India's liberalisation in 1991.
Almost immediately, a consensus emerged that little in the files was actually secret or new.
Today philosophers have almost reached a consensus that it is neither.
"I think right now there's almost a market consensus of the slowing down of economic growth around the world," said Linus Yip, a strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong told Associated Press.
Pakistani Pushtuns see the war in Afghanistan as being waged against ethnic, as well as religious, brothers.Ijaz Gilani, of Gallup Pakistan, a pollster, says surveys show that distrust of America is "almost a national consensus".
For almost 10 years a consensus has developed within the three main parties inspired by the Thatcher counter-revolution, which argued that government should keep out of industry and leave everything to the market.
