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The phrase "almost a tenth of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a quantity that is close to 10% of a whole.
Example: "The survey revealed that almost a tenth of the participants preferred option A over option B."
Alternatives: "nearly one-tenth of" or "approximately 10 percent of".
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Almost a tenth of the population was illiterate.
Clean energy now gobbles up almost a tenth of America's venture capital.
The airline will retire up to 85 aircraft, or almost a tenth of its fleet.
That suggests that remittances may reach almost a tenth of the world's population.
In Lesotho, miners' remittances account for almost a tenth of GDP, although this wobbles with the gold price.
In Formosa, that figure is $2m; the legislators there devour almost a tenth of the provincial budget.
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Almost a third of your salary!
On average, almost a third of rural smallholders grow trees.
The first was almost a third of the programme.
Trade subtracted almost a third of a percentage point.
Catalonia contributes almost a fifth of Spain's economic output.
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