The phrase "almost the majority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a group is close to being a majority but does not quite reach that threshold.
Example: "In the recent vote, almost the majority of participants favored the new policy, but it fell short of the required votes to pass."
Alternatives: "nearly the majority" or "close to the majority".
"If I'm not mistaken there's nine of us – almost the majority!" he says, with pardonable exaggeration.
"In some places, almost the majority of referrals that have been coming in over the last six months – almost 50% of referrals in Midlands and more than 50% in Wales – are actually far right extremism cases.
Almost the majority of women 399 (97.1%) was married.
Moreover, the abdominal complaints in individuals with a FGD often change over time resulting in variations of predominant symptoms in almost the majority of the patients during a year.
By the end of May 2013, The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates over 1.5 million refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt and North Africa [ 1]. Almost the majority (75%) half are below age 18 (54%) and the plurality (34%) are in Lebanon.
Almost invariably, the majority of characteristics fall into the EI bucket.
In less than two days, reviews of the script on Amazon.co.uk already number almost 200, the majority of them positive.
Interestingly, whilst some businesses believe that the transformation will be almost immediate, the majority are confident it will happen within a few years, which is still a pretty swift transformation in my eyes.
Almost certainly, the majority of these singleton ORFs are spurious ORFs.
The community composition as deduced from EGTs identified in both datasets is almost identical: The majority of EGTs was classified as belonging to the superkingdoms Bacteria (GS FLX: 67%; Titanium: 70%) and Archaea (11% and 8%, respectively).
Although effect sizes in both groups were almost identical, the majority of the observed heterogeneity was in the group, which had some G-CSF use (I 2 =72.8 and 0% for G-CSF and non-G-CSF groups, respectively).
