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The phrase "almost double as many" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing quantities to indicate that one quantity is nearly twice the size of another.
Example: "The new model sold almost double as many units as the previous version in its first month."
Alternatives: "nearly twice as many" or "close to double the amount".
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In May's general election, 3.8 million people cast their votes for Ukip – almost half as many as those who voted Labour and more than double the number who backed the SNP.
The L.A.-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area saw a total of 57,247 cars stolen last year, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, almost twice as many as closest rival San Francisco's 30,554 and more than double Houston's 25,433 or New York-New Jersey's 22,391.
That is almost twice as many as in 1976.
She fired almost as many.
Yellen got almost as many negative votes, all from Republicans.
He has almost as many doubles, 16, as strikeouts.
Credit card lending there has almost doubled since 2010 - with many struggling to keep up their payments.
They led by double digits for almost the entire second half, and by as many as 29 points.
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