The phrase "almost receded" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has nearly diminished or withdrawn, often in a physical or metaphorical sense.
Example: "The floodwaters had almost receded, revealing the damage left behind."
Alternatives: "nearly faded" or "practically withdrawn."
But by the eve of the election, he was generally around four or five per cent, and the talk of Johnson as a spoiler had almost entirely receded.
Ten years on, angst is still front and center, but the important, mortifying elements of high school -- the cafeteria, parents' day, science experiments and make-up tests -- have almost entirely receded.
But 27 years later the waters have almost entirely receded and, as always with buildings abandoned in a hurry and explored decades later, the first photographs of the so-called "town that drowned" revealed an eerie ghostworld, a strange glimpse of a bygone era.
Sylvia Plath, who died 50 years ago this week, founded a style of feminist poetry that has almost completely receded.
Flu-like symptoms and fatigue intensity, experienced by nearly all patients, receded almost completely during the interval-month of DD/DI treatment, although we observed an increase in its frequency and severity in the subsequent cycles.
As his convoy sped away, towards the remote Hindu Kush, the chances of a Cruise missile landing anywhere near him in the immediate future receded almost to nothing.
Then the water receded almost as quickly as it rose.
First, opinion polls show that homophobia has receded almost as far as Homer Simpson's hairline.
Spectral looking, their details swam into view, then receded, almost as if Ms. Ackermann had been trying to erase herself.
Glaciers in the mountains of Patagonia for instance, have on average receded almost a mile in the past 13 years.
