The phrase "almost total dependence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something relies heavily on another entity, but not completely.
Example: "The research indicated that the population had almost total dependence on imported food supplies."
Alternatives: "nearly complete reliance" or "practically total reliance".
Many of these derive from Castro's almost total dependence on the Soviet Union, which he does not relish but for which he has no immediate substitute.
Lisa has Rett syndrome, a severely disabling developmental disability that strikes without warning and results in almost total dependence throughout life.
The limited influence of his work includes a few cases of almost total dependence, the most talented artist who worked in this way being Daniele da Volterra.
In recent months, like some alarm clock devised by Rip Van Winkle, the coming expiration in October of the 15-year pact has been awakening people here to the yawning chasm between their dream of autonomy and a reality of almost total dependence.
Cheap finance is often a better tool for carmakers than a straight rebate on the purchase cost would be, because it helps maintain both the prices of new cars and residual values.What has made the credit crunch so painful for carmakers is the almost total dependence of their captive financial-services subsidiaries on wholesale funding, which has become scarce and expensive.
The Nile River has also been the setting for recent tensions and conflict over control of the water rights between upstream Ethiopia's construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and downstream Egypt and Sudan's almost total dependence on Nile River water resources.
Those questions are about the degree to which the management's long-term aim of reducing ITV's near total dependence on fickle advertising revenues has been fulfilled.
It's near total dependence on crude exports for hard currency has seen the government of president Nicolás Maduro struggling to try keep the economy afloat.
They say the North wants South Korean investment to offset its current, almost total, economic dependence on China.
Yet it is mass privatisation that has led to almost total de-industrialisation and the dependence on imported goods and services financed by the debt slavery of citizens and their weak state.
