The phrase "almost a score of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a quantity that is close to twenty, often in a more literary or formal context.
Example: "The event attracted almost a score of participants, making it one of the largest gatherings we've seen."
Alternatives: "nearly twenty" or "around twenty."
THE news-stands on Lima's street corners are festooned with almost a score of daily newspapers.
At that point, Yourcenar had published almost a score of books (plus translations of other writers' work) in French, but only three of them, "Coup de Grâce," "Memoirs of Hadrian," and "The Abyss," had been brought out in English.
Helen Ratnoff Plotz, who earned praise for compiling and editing almost a score of anthologies of poetry, mostly for young adults, died March 30 at her home in Brooklyn.
Each item can be answered with "almost never", "generally not" "sometimes", "most of the time" or "almost always", with a score of one for the first answer (almost never) up to five (almost always).
When rated among children ages 6 to 12, her Q score almost doubles, reaching a score of 45.
Hence, this option is not advisable for strictly locally related sequences where we observed a reduction of the alignment quality almost down to a score of zero.
A STRATIFY score of ≥2 increased the pre-test probability of a subsequent fall from 6.3% to almost 10% and a score of <2 reduced the probability of a subsequent fall to 3.7% across all clinical settings.
Our data indicates that the risk of breast cancer is almost 2% once a score of 4 is reached and this increased to over 5% once the score reaches a threshold of ≥6 on the CPR.
Grade A butter is almost as good, with a score of 92 out of 100 points.
The 50th percentile at almost all universities has a score of 0.1.
The display of 100 paintings selected from almost 400 submissions includes a score of landscapes, portraits and Oriental works.
