The phrase "almost quarter" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used informally to describe a time that is close to a quarter of an hour or a quarter of something else, but it is not commonly accepted.
Example: "It's almost quarter to three, so we should get ready to leave."
Alternatives: "nearly a quarter" or "close to a quarter".
"People are looking at signs of stabilization in the housing market, there's the European summit this week, it's almost quarter end.
If Depp took Tim Burton as his movie bride almost quarter of a century ago, then Gore Verbinski has emerged as his mistress, their relationship producing Rango, three Pirates of The Caribbean movies and now The Lone Ranger.
Her face has been familiar to us for almost quarter of a century as Dot Cotton of Albert Square - EastEnders' pinched and parochial working-class washerwoman, an unlovely old Cockney gossip.
Self-publishing is becoming "mainstream", with new figures revealing the number of do-it-yourself books published in the US has exploded, tripling in the last five years to reach almost quarter of a million titles in 2011.
Some politicians and media outlets have capitalised on this confusion, with a recent petition by the Mail on Sunday to "End the £12bn foreign aid madness" garnering almost quarter of a million signatures, and leading to a debate in parliament.
It has more to do, however, with a revitalisation of the sleepy German giant.For decades Siemens was the problem child of European heavy industry, lurching from profit to loss almost quarter by quarter as big infrastructure projects went wrong or spending spiralled out of control.
By the end of her almost quarter-century on the court, Justice O'Connor was without question the justice who controlled the result in ideologically divided cases.
Notably, very early on in their almost quarter-century-long business relationship with Madoff, the Sterling Partners discovered Madoff's anomalous and implausibly high and consistent returns, and then found endless ways to exploit those returns".
The performance was paired with an audio-visual experience, showcasing the immersive sounds and stories that have shaped his almost quarter-of-a-century career.
But on Monday, the president suggested that Canada and Mexico could avoid the tariffs if they made concessions in negotiations to rewrite the almost quarter-century-old agreement.
The three nations — the United States, Mexico and Canada — are currently involved in a sometimes-contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the almost quarter-century-old pact that governs much of the continent's commerce.
