The phrase "almost severely" is not commonly used in written English and may lead to confusion.
It could be used to describe a situation that is close to being severe but not quite there, though it may not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The storm was almost severely damaging, but it ultimately spared the town from the worst of the destruction."
Alternatives: "nearly severe" or "close to severe".
Children near the border areas – who do not even have the limited protection of a refugee camp – are the most severely affected; almost one third of them are acutely malnourished.
When we grouped patients based on their hand impairment severity (severe hFMA ≥5 or extremely severe hFMA <5), almost all severely motor impaired patients (N = 6) presented higher weights on extensor than on flexor forearm muscles, both on unaffected (83.3%) and affected side (83.3%).
"Speaker Cannon has been censured and abused almost as severely as were Washington, Lincoln, and McKinley.
They took fluid from my knee and said it was almost certainly severely infected, though they wouldn't know what with until the results came back.
The Soviet Union did climb back (as did the nations of Western Europe, whose infrastructures had in many cases been devastated almost as severely).
This coyness damages Goodbye Christopher Robin almost as severely as if Walk the Line had omitted all of its Johnny Cash songs or if Chariots of Fire had cut out all the shots of men running.
On the other flank, Eugene attacked and suffered almost as severely.
In fact, at the 10 W power setting, the rat sciatic nerve was almost transected, severely damaging nerve function.
Indeed, this goal can be achieved in almost all severely hyperglycemic, newly diagnosed type 2 patients by initial treatment with high doses of SU (9).
Serum starvation decreased p70S6 K phosphorylation almost as severely as the mTORC1-specific inhibitor rapamycin (Fig. 2A and B; compare Ctrl versus Rap and Ctrl versus -FBS).
