The phrase "almost a majority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a group is close to having more than half of the total, but does not quite reach that threshold.
Example: "In the recent vote, almost a majority of the members supported the new policy, but it fell short of the required votes to pass."
Alternatives: "nearly a majority" or "close to a majority".
Then last week, Sprint not only raised its bid to $5 a share, well above the price that Clearwire's board was originally urging its shareholders to accept, but also locked up almost a majority of the outstanding shares.
But if you would make ballot boxes in all the countries of the world and ask the people to name who are the rogue countries in the world, you would find that almost a majority would name the United States as the first rogue state".
Tax reform is always easier in good times; flat-taxers are almost a majority now in the Republican Party; and the candidates with the most mojo this winter are those most hostile to the special-interest groups who love the current system.
The company's top 10 users represent 11.8percentt of all revenues (that's $447,220 per user in the first three months this year!), and its top 500 users accounted for almost a majority of total revenues.
Similarly, according to Pew Research almost a majority (48percentt) of Americans remain opposed to U.S. airstrikes in Syria.
Certainly, claims that there is a liberal media bias are louder, leading to a Gallup poll where almost a majority of Americans believe there is one.
Most members of the Labour party, and almost certainly a majority of its MPs, will have been dismayed by the timing of the email circulated by Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt yesterday.
He was also dismissive of another option, an approach to the General Assembly, where the Palestinians would be almost guaranteed a majority in favor of upgrading their status to that of a nonmember observer state.
There is almost certainly a majority of MPs in the Commons who will vote for renewal whatever Labour decides, so why inflict a major civil war over the issue and change nothing?
Mr. McAdoo said that California had not come to Chicago to deadlock the convention, that Democracy had suffered enough, as in 1924 when he himself had almost polled a majority by such methods.
Mr Brown lost the first two, the post-match analysis mostly focusing on the contest between his rivals (the third is on April 29th, after The Economist goes to press).Not long ago it seemed that Labour might almost manage a majority on May 6th.
