The phrase "almost as generous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the level of generosity of two subjects, indicating that one is nearly equal in generosity to the other.
Example: "While her donation was significant, it was almost as generous as the contributions made by the larger corporations."
Alternatives: "nearly as generous" or "close to being as generous".
Harvard is almost as generous.
Its new dividend yield will be almost as generous as that of the overall market.
Determined to end long NHS waiting lists and improve "bog standard" schools, Blair more than doubled health spending and was almost as generous to education.
Ever since the last East German leader, Lothar de Maiziere, began welcoming Soviet Jews in 1990, and Helmut Kohl, the former chancellor, adopted a similar policy after unification, Jews have been received here with a welcome almost as generous as that reserved for "ethnic Germans" -- people of German stock coming mainly from Russia who have automatic right to German citizenship.
Colligan, who has been Palm's CEO since 2005, is confident; in fact, he's almost as generous toward his competitors as he is toward the partners who have influenced him throughout his career.
Employment protection legislation is more than twice as strict and benefits for the unemployed almost twice as generous.
To be fair, it is almost equally generous to American and German obscurities, and it has dutifully expanded from thumbnail sketch to major article such subjects as Philip Glass and Frank Loesser.
Scotland's generous financial settlement is almost as unpopular as the parliamentary disparity.
We scored almost as well with Ma Palmer's New England pot roast: two generous slices of fork-tender beef, smothered by a mushroom-laden cabernet demi-glacé.
He had a tough skin and a generous heart, and his column won almost as many awards -- including a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 -- as a Windy City election has dead voters.
