The phrase "almost as influential" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the level of influence of two or more entities, suggesting that one is nearly as impactful as the other.
Example: "While many leaders have shaped the course of history, few have been almost as influential as Martin Luther King Jr."
Alternatives: "nearly as impactful" or "close in influence".
"Clinically, she is almost as influential as R.D. Laing," the British psychologist Oliver James told The Observer of London in 2005.
(Elizabeth David, he thinks, was almost as influential, but she was not a professional chef and her impact was, therefore, limited mostly to domestic kitchens).
The No 8 was almost as influential against Ireland as he had been in the victory over Scotland on the opening day of the competition Who makes our best XV following the second round of Six Nations action?
Although name-dropped less often than they deserve, Yellow Magic Orchestra boldly surfed the cutting edge of electronic pop at the beginning of the 1980s, and in their way were almost as influential as the much-revered Kraftwerk.
In the almost 3,000 letters in between he missed only three broadcasts—he covered all the most important events in modern American history, from Watergate to September 11th, from the black market in beef to the Black Panthers, from Vietnam to the California recall.Mr Cooke was almost as influential in shaping America's image of Britain.
It was not only the farewell night at the DW Stadium for Tomkins, but also for Lee Mossop and Pat Richards, the latter a player who, in his own way, has been almost as influential as Tomkins over the last few seasons.
Probabilities of recurrence after PE and developing metastases as well as the utility weight for no AE after PE are almost equally influential variables.
Almost as good, and even more influential, was The Naked City (1948), a quasi-documentary police procedural filmed in New York City and starring Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Duff; it would be imitated dozens of times over the next 10 years, both in the cinema and on television.
At least two patients endorsed each of four facilitators as influential and assigned almost 42%% of available weighted votes to them (Fig. 3a; see Additional file 7 for more details).
But it is hard to think of many who have been as influential as A Certain Ratio and remained almost completely unknown to the general public.
Its scholars propounded theories of government and of social and individual life that were as influential in China and East Asia as the Greek philosophers of almost contemporary age were in the Western world.
