The phrase "almost staggering" is correct and can be used in written English to describe something that is nearly or almost overwhelming or surprising
It can be used to add emphasis or drama to a sentence. Example: The size of the mountain was almost staggering as I stood at the base, looking up at its majestic peak.
The Sunday Times's Dominic Sandbrook adopted a rather less subjective approach, calling the author's chronicle of the last eight years of Nelson's life "a sequel of colossal length, global sweep and great psychological acuity … At times his book, almost staggering under the weight of detail, is slow going.
The dark sauces pooling beneath the meat have an almost staggering richness.
Another resident, Paula Quinn, said Atkinson appeared to be "almost staggering" in the street before he was Tasered.
He had walked with a leaden, almost staggering gait into the interview room, his white polo spilling over the waist of his loosefitting jeans.
There were reports that he was agitated before he was Tasered, and neighbour Paula Quinn said that he appeared to be "almost staggering" in the street.
Downtown Flushing still seems to have an almost staggering number of businesses catering to Asians -- everything from Chinese herb shops to 24-hour Korean barbecue restaurants.
Burns said he was watching the finish and saw "a woman runner almost stagger across the two sets of [antenna] mats at the finish and reach for her cell phone" to get a text message with her time.
Ms Somaly, almost dazed, staggered into his embrace.
Now Stern wants SOFIA, which made its first test flight in April, to begin sending back data almost immediately by staggering those tests.
He announced income-tax cuts worth nearly A$37 billion ($28 billion) over four years, a scale of largesse that staggered almost everyone.But the euphoria was somewhat dampened by a decision just a few days earlier by the Reserve Bank of Australia to raise interest rates for the second time since March 2005.
And it's a fairly democratic pursuit as well: the sheer range of vintage and modern mechanical watches on the market today is staggering for the almost endless number of options a person (on any budget) can have in choosing a personal timepiece.
