The phrase "almost lower than" is not correct and can be confusing in written English.
It is typically used when comparing two things, but the redundancy of "almost" and "lower than" makes it awkward.
Example: "The temperature today is almost lower than it was yesterday, but it's still above freezing."
Alternatives: "nearly below" or "just under".
However, the recognition rates of the FLBP and NRLBPs are almost lower than 50% in this case.
Also, raking of Iran in Middle East and North Africa is 8th from 19 countries (World Bank [2013]), while according to the annual report of GEM, the business discontinuation rate in Iran (5%) is almost lower than average of efficiency driven economies (6%) (Xavier et al. [2013]).
The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was estimated to be lower than 0.9 in all studies (between 0.72 and 0.88), which is almost lower than PDQ-39 in different reports.
Due to the limitation in the number of samples, correlations between copy number alteration and gene expression level from qRT-PCR were almost lower than the microarray data.
In addition, the standard deviations of the five prediction accuracies with the same order were almost lower than 1%, indicating that this method was quite stable on DS(i ).
We compared the mean of all three mental load dimensions: the reported mental demands were almost lower than the effort during the observed periods: ΔM = -4.98, t(df = 55) = 1.94, p = .06.06
Though turnouts in byelections are almost always lower than at general elections, for a majority to be cut from almost 6,000 to 617 is no cause for celebration at all.
The total was almost 24percentt lower than in the same period last year, when 1,792 died.
Wages today are almost 10percentt lower than they were in 1973, after accounting for inflation.
British Gas said the average annual gas bill would be almost £100 lower than 13 months ago.
In Northern Ireland they are almost 50% lower than before the crash.
