The phrase "almost as sensitive" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to compare the sensitivity of two things, indicating that one is nearly as sensitive as the other.
Example: "The new model is almost as sensitive as the previous version, making it suitable for delicate tasks."
Alternatives: "nearly as sensitive" or "close to being as sensitive".
In New York, I'm almost as sensitive to smoke as Michael Bloomberg is.
The US public proved almost as sensitive to the deaths of volunteers as it had been to those of draftees.
For Janet Allen, the assignment is almost as sensitive as the study Housecalls did for Playtex examining the use of padded bras.
The question of whether length matters is almost as sensitive an issue in theatre as in personal advice pages for men.
The issue of politicians' financial worth is almost as sensitive in the US and UK, as voters in those countries continue to suffer from the economic crisis.
Dowling and pals calculate that a single BEC gyroscope that measures just a few millimeters square should be almost as sensitive as a matter-wave interferometer that is several square meters in size.
It's a mutant pad with almost as many sensitive areas as that awful Atari Jaguar thing eight people got cramp over in 1993.
Our data shows that after VRT the plant continuous to lose the ability to cold acclimate such that at 70 days after cold treatment the winter habit genotypes were almost as cold sensitive as the untreated spring habit genotypes.
All of this suggests that the patients' CSF doesn't activate GABAA receptors directly, but it does make the receptors almost twice as sensitive to GABA, the researchers report today in Science Translational Medicine.
The dinucleotide-based method (dint5) is almost as powerful, being sensitive to only one source out of 10 (H. influenzae).
While our single fasting sample is almost certainly not as sensitive in detecting hypochlorhydria as measurement of acid secretion rate would be, it is relevant to infectious disease as a snapshot of gastric pH represents the chemical barrier encountered by a pathogen on ingestion.
