The phrase "almost representative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not fully representative but has some qualities or characteristics of the whole.
Example: "The survey results are almost representative of the entire population, but they may not capture all demographics accurately."
Alternatives: "partially representative" or "nearly representative".
This indicates that whilst the hydraulic conductivity of the till is almost representative of the porosity within its consolidated grain matrix, the mixtures are predominantly reliant on a further property to achieve low conductivity.
A key strength is that we draw on an almost representative sample of older adults in Germany since subjects were recruited via GP offices and nearly everyone of this age bracket has GP visits.
The strength of our study is that we included an almost representative sample of patients with MM within the South-Eastern Norway, although the median age was somewhat lower (66 years) than in a newly published population based study from Sweden (72 years) [ 33].
At £5.93 an hour, the minimum wage for those aged 21 and over, you are almost perfectly representative of the poorest fifth of employees.
It highlighted a number of other failings, including a lack of diversity, with only two of the 16 members being women, a lack of independent members – and also warned: "The regional associations, which are represented by 12 out of the 16 members, dominate the current board and that this almost entirely representative structure is not a good model of governance".
The negative impact is observed across all macroeconomic variables such as real GDP, sectoral export and imports and the real household income of almost all representative household types used in this study.
Almost every Representative was present during the roll call.
The corrections in the text are almost always representative of the Byzantine textual tradition.
With this method, we were able to reconstruct an almost complete representative HIV genome of the clinical sample.
Importantly, these 2D crystals possess the same geometric parameters present in the three-dimensional microvillar core bundle, namely, the actin filaments are unipolar, in axial register, and have center-to-center spacing of 12.0 nm and, therefore, are almost certainly representative of the fimbrin cross-links within the native microvillar core bundle.
Three separate types of microarray were used to carry out rat gene expression profiling: - Operon Rat v1.0 OpArray™ is a two-colour gene expression system, containing 5,717 oligonucleotides, almost entirely representative for unique well-documented genes.
