The phrase "almost historic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event or moment that is significant but may not fully meet the criteria of being historic.
Example: "The team's victory in the championship was almost historic, as it marked their first win in over a decade."
Alternatives: "nearly historic" or "borderline historic".
Penn State showed some life, ruining Northwestern's almost historic day.
"This would allow us to take advantage of what are almost historic low interest rates," he said.
It was this profound interest in central planning and governance that gave almost historic significance to the ideas of the English economist John Maynard Keynes.
But, referring to Mr. Rove and Mr. Gillespie as part of the "ruling class," he added, "Then a massive, almost historic battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party begins".
After the election, mainstream conservatives may well engage in what Richard Viguerie has forecast as "a massive, almost historic battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party".
But even so, what they say is big, practical and, in the context of the kind of debate that Messrs Blair and Duncan Smith were having yesterday, almost historic.
It almost feels historic in the context of its gleaming surroundings.
Merkel hailed the agreement as "very, very good, almost an historic compromise".
Before the project could begin, almost 1,000 historic items housed in the castle had to be removed and kept elsewhere.
But Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft's creation highlighted almost every historic prejudice about homosexual men – Humphries was predatory, vain and lived with his mother.
I think MIT did a fabulous thing by having this meeting". Professor Hopkins, who initiated the study which resulted in senior women science professors getting greater recognition, equity increases in compensation and more lab space, said, "The fact that this topic was discussed today by these participants was almost a historic event, not just another meeting.
