The phrase "almost as much trouble" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to compare the level of difficulty or inconvenience of two different situations or tasks.
Example: "Getting the car fixed was almost as much trouble as finding a parking spot in the city."
Alternatives: "nearly as much hassle" or "practically as much difficulty".
This summer he had almost as much trouble.
Lady is having almost as much trouble as the Tramp staying out of the pound these days.
★★★★★ 900g, £15.99 Almost as much trouble has been taken over the exquisitely tasteful packaging as over the pudding itself, which is as round as cannonball.
He grows to like these men, despite their fondness for threatening to shoot children, even as they cause him almost as much trouble as their protective presence otherwise curtails.
Both disgruntled players went on to make almost as much trouble from the backbenches as Robin Cook (sacked as foreign secretary in 2001) would later make for Blair over Iraq.
Even this is arousing fierce resistance in Paris, where it is seen as just one more attempt to reopen the 2002 deal to leave the CAP unchanged until 2013.The rest of the British plan for the EU budget has run into almost as much trouble.
US airlines are in almost as much economic trouble as the inept private companies banished from departure zones by Friday's emergency legislation.
Foreign policy will define the election almost as much as America's troubled economy.
The Commonwealth never fully recovered, unlike Muscovy, which had suffered almost as much during the Time of Troubles.
When Stephen Elop takes on Microsoft's challenges as the new head of its mobile computing business, he will find plenty of parallels from his three years running Nokia: both are established companies blindsided by new innovators and troubled almost as much by pride and internal fiefs as by technology shifts, according to former executives and company watchers.
On paper the character is completely preposterous, but since Tony is played by Robert Downey Jr., he's almost immediately as authentic and familiar — as much fun, as much trouble — as your ex-boyfriend or your old college roommate.
