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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost a fifth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a quantity that is close to one-fifth of a whole, often in contexts involving statistics or measurements.
Example: "The survey results showed that almost a fifth of the participants preferred option A over option B."
Alternatives: "nearly one-fifth" or "approximately a fifth".
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Almost a fifth are female.
It's almost a fifth character".
Catalonia contributes almost a fifth of Spain's economic output.
Its stock price has since fallen by almost a fifth.
In June Zynga fired almost a fifth of its workforce.
The rupee has already slumped by almost a fifth in the last year.
He must perform that conjuring trick while cutting budgets by almost a fifth.
EOUs accounted for almost a fifth of total exports in 2007/08.
Almost a fifth of all seizures in the US are in this state.
America's house prices, on average, are down by almost a fifth.
Almost a fifth of the 11m children who die each year are killed by pneumonia.
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