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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost the length of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the length of one object or measurement to another, indicating that it is nearly equal but not quite.
Example: "The new table is almost the length of the old one, making it a perfect fit for the dining room."
Alternatives: "nearly the length of" or "close to the length of".
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It created a trench of sorts along almost the length of the building.
Two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, flow almost the length of the country.
The large wound on his abdomen was almost the length of her hand.
We cut a trench almost the length of the plot and carefully consign our wrinkly treasures to the earth.
A large crack ran almost the length of the courtyard's pavement, evidence, she suspected, of a shaky foundation.
The minimum recommended suspension for verbal abuse of an official is six weeks, almost the length of the tour.
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The table there is almost twice the length of a pool table.
The Americans won by almost half the length of the 50-meter pool in the new Nassau County Goodwill Games Swimming and Diving Center.
The first is 29.6 days that's almost exactly the length of a lunar month, which modern astronomers put at 29.53059 days.
The new sections will almost double the length of coastal path that has already been created as part of the project.
Tunisia has built a 125-mile barrier along almost half the length of its border with Libya in an attempt to stop militants infiltrating.
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