The phrase "almost preferable to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two options, suggesting that one option is nearly better than another.
Example: "While both choices have their merits, I find the new policy almost preferable to the old one."
Alternatives: "nearly better than" or "almost more desirable than".
What the policeman says is very nearly true: life in Zimbabwe these days is so hard, and sometimes so terrifying, that the passengers say death is almost preferable to returning to hunger, oppression, disease and hopelessness.
If you're roasting a chicken this weekend, I'd highly recommend ensuring you have enough leftovers to make TwinnyDip's soba noodles with chicken in a cashew sesame dressing – almost preferable to the main event, and just what's needed on a dank September day.
The snow-covered bike obviously references him, and is almost certainly preferable to the results of an hour spent with a photographer vainly trying to get him to project bonhomie.
Blix appeared to share the more or less consensual U.N. view that continued discussion is almost automatically preferable to fighting -- a view in which the belief in peace and the belief in process converge and war is always failure.
As such, it's almost always preferable to smother a target and stuff their sleeping body into a dustbin, rather than break their neck and add to the rot and plague.
In fact, it would almost be preferable to see Kifi baked into Twitter itself, improving Twitter's own search functionality by giving it a way to better retrieve the links users tweet by better understanding the content they contain.
While it would almost be preferable to learn that Michael Hastings simply did die because of a horrible accident, the timing of his email and the freak nature of his car accident certainly have caused a perfect storm for conspiracy.
Given that restorative care is almost always preferable to extractions, it may be important for hospital personnel to explore greater opportunities to carry out conservative procedures for any child undergoing DGA, an assertion supported by Hosey and others [ 4].
Wider staircases are almost always preferable to thinner staircases because they are much easier and more comfortable to navigate.
This goes for the first or the fortieth time you get a hold of them; calling is almost always preferable to texting.
It is almost always preferable to speak with a supervisor (who are trained to resolve larger issues) and is doubly beneficial to the customer service representative who needs to keep his/her call time to a minimum.
