The phrase "almost certainly kept the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a high probability that something was maintained or preserved in a certain state or condition.
Example: "The historical documents were almost certainly kept the same way for decades, ensuring their integrity."
Alternatives: "likely maintained the" or "probably preserved the".
They can almost certainly keep the lid on for several years but, as always happens when necessary reform is postponed, the eventual crisis will be larger.
As happened in 2011, the Treasury Department, through creative cash management, could almost certainly keep the government operating for two or three additional months beyond that date, which would take us to mid-August.
While fan passion alone could almost certainly keep the industry going, leagues and sporting franchises have decided not to rest on their laurels.
Snowden, who recognises he is almost certainly kept under surveillance by the Russians and the US, met the Guardian at a hotel within walking distance of Red Square.
As far as the Norwich City manager, Chris Hughton, is concerned, however, the result has almost certainly kept him in his job.
After raising a toast to Gordon Willis, the cinematographer behind movies like "The Godfather" and "Manhattan," Caleb Deschanel, a protégé, cut close to the bone by telling how Mr. Willis's salty ways had almost certainly kept him from winning an Oscar over the years.
But all that free speech is expensive, and these companies have a lot more money to make their case than the rest of us taxpayers -- who will almost certainly keep ending up paying the cost.
That's apparently about half of what the company expects the robot to get via retail — a price that will almost certainly keep it out of the mainstream in this early iteration. .
But House Republicans will almost certainly keep trying to undermine the rule as part their attack on environmental laws that have long protected millions of acres of sensitive forests, deserts, cultural areas and wildlife refuges.
On his 34th birthday, Dan O'Brien said today that he had suffered a foot injury that would almost certainly keep him out of the Olympic track and field trials and prevent him from defending his gold medal in the decathlon.
