The phrase "almost the same direction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two or more things that are similar in their orientation or path but not identical.
Example: "The two roads run almost the same direction, making it easy to navigate between them."
Alternatives: "nearly identical direction" or "similar direction".
The beams point in almost the same direction, and, once the aircraft has entered the beams, an ILS receiver on the airplane can measure the angular displacement from the centre line and display this displacement on an instrument or use it to guide the aircraft along a line toward the point of landing.
Mean flow velocities measured in the entire water column have almost the same direction as wind.
All foggaras are parallel and have almost the same direction; they maintain some distance in between, so as to avoid severe drainage at the expense of neighboring and more ancient foggaras.
The first difference between vehicles and pedestrians gives rise to various kinds of flow relations: all pedestrians of some proximity can move into almost the same direction, two groups might meet in a counterflow or crossing flow situation.
The fact that the tilt vectors at MEA in 2006 and 2008 showed almost the same direction suggests the possibility that the dike estimated from the 2008 activity can also explain the tilt vector observed in 2006.
In the present work, the polydopamine nanobelts were clearly formed and lying in almost the same direction (as indicated by the arrow in Figure 1B).
In Uvira, a city that is usually warm and crowded, it was exceptionally quiet and many people were on the street looking almost on the same direction, north, because the previous day, 11 people were killed in Kiliba (at 20km northern Uvira, almost 12 miles) by Banyamulenge combatants.
From this information, we conclude that the particle is oriented almost in the same direction during scanning, i.e., the beam-particle interaction is such that it does not significantly disturb the state (position) of the particle.
This fact also means that discrepancies between the MDRD and the CKD-EPI are systematic and almost in the same direction, i.e. MDRD giving a positive screening result and CKD-EPI giving a negative one.
Compare this record with, for example, China's interventions over the past decade, which have occurred almost daily, and almost always in the same direction, to weaken their currency.
The unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios were almost always in the same direction (above or below 1.0).
