The phrase "almost instrumental" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly or partially serving as a means to an end or playing a significant role in a process.
Example: "Her contributions to the project were almost instrumental in its success, as she provided valuable insights and support."
Alternatives: "nearly pivotal" or "partially crucial".
The women are brought close by the connection between their husbands – but the men feel almost instrumental, it's what's between the women that's truthful and terrible, raw.
To some extent, the EU promotes the EDE towards education for Europe in an almost instrumental manner, pushing the attitudinal facets vis-à-vis Europe into the background of its political action.
And now we start our journey into Beethoven's celebration of this poem and anthem, a journey which takes us to new worlds -- a curious peasants' march, a chorus used in an almost instrumental way, the four soloists challenged by some of the most difficult vocal music imaginable, a great double fugue.
It's almost entirely instrumental, and pivots around heavy, synthesized bass lines that become almost visible when properly (and massively) amplified in a club.
BOWERY BALLROOM 6 Delancey St. (212-533-2111) — AprilocalThe local guitar phenom Kaki King started her career by releasing two albums of almost entirely instrumental music.
Most of the group's records also were quiet ballads that featured Til's heartfelt lead vocal supported by soft choruses sung by the rest of the group and almost imperceptible instrumental accompaniment.
The Chieftains, an Irish band formed in Dublin in 1962 by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts, Michael Tubridy, Martin Fay and David Fallon, play music that's almost entirely instrumental, grounded in uilleann pipes (bagpipes) and their homeland's folk culture, as they explained in an interview with NPR.
The album is the first independent release from Nine Inch Nails following its split from Interscope Records, and is an almost entirely instrumental album.
The tracks are almost all instrumentals, and range from the drifting mood piece Radcliffe, in which Ethiopian flute and strings give way to western brass, to the more conventional Ethio Blues, the robust Green Africa, or (best of all) a revival of I Faram Gami I Faram, driven on by brass and rousing vocals.
