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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost stayed the same" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something has changed very little or not at all over a period of time.
Example: "Despite the many challenges we faced, our core values almost stayed the same throughout the years."
Alternatives: "remained largely unchanged" or "barely altered".
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The company's profit nearly quadrupled to $1.1 billion, while revenue almost stayed the same at $20.1 billion in that quarter (on a year-on-year basis).
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Similarly in Fig. 7b, the reflectivity R almost stays the same in low energy region less than 4 eV.
We also observe that with different number of candidate relays, the number of observation steps almost stay the same.
For SP flooding, it is shown in Table 6 that the chemical efficiency almost stays the same when polymer concentration is larger than 1,600 ppm.
Figure 7 b illustrates that in the low D2D density regime (λ d =10−6), even though the ASR increases linearly, the EE almost stays the same as the number of CUEs, and correspondingly the number of BS antennas, increases.
Or more precisely, as opposed to the common assumption that 'everything is different now after Sept. 11,' almost everything has stayed the same, albeit in sharper relief".
While almost everything else changed, they stayed the same, as much a part of every Christmas as our tree and the Salvation Army man on the corner.
Forty-two dollars in 1989 is the equivalent of $84 today, but somehow, give or take a few bucks, skateboards have stayed the same price, almost completely resisting inflation.
Almost all showed alcohol and tobacco spending fell or stayed the same.
Things stayed the same.
That stayed the same.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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