The phrase "almost eradicating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to significantly reduce or eliminate something, but not completely.
Example: "The new policy has been successful in almost eradicating the issue of littering in our community."
Alternatives: "nearly eliminating" or "virtually eradicating".
Only a churl would sneer at the Gates Foundation's contribution to almost eradicating polio, reducing preventable deaths among children under five and distributing anti-HIV drugs.
Following the end of the conflict and the fall of communism, a large amount of companies were privatised, creating a small number of moguls, almost eradicating the middle class and driving the working class into poverty.
From across the Amboseli-Tsavo region - a wilderness of more than two-and-a-half million acres, that's home to six Maasai groups and wild game such as lions, elephants, buffalos and rhino - 120 athletes now take part, while almost eradicating the practice of hunting lions.
After almost eradicating polio, Angola is once again struggling to end this crippling but easily preventable illness.
Katan in Israel (personal communication) enumerated V. dahliae microsclerotia in continuously solarized almond orchards and found that both added or natural V. dahliae populations were almost eradicated to the soil depth of 70 cm, while eradication was complete at 50 cm.
Severe malnutrition among children under five has been almost eradicated.
By the end of 2011 American forces had almost eradicated ISI, as it still was, in Iraq.
The Forestry Commission said it was "cautiously optimistic" that the species was almost eradicated from the area.
By the turn of the century, aggressive hunting had almost eradicated the white-tailed deer in New Jersey.
"We have a lot of confidence that poverty has been almost eradicated," says David Dollar, who represents the World Bank in China.For richer, for poorerNot in India.
"Over the next decade I think we can really bring the figures of modern slavery down to where it is almost eradicated from our shores.
