The phrase "almost twice the amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing quantities to indicate that one quantity is nearly double another.
Example: "The new budget is almost twice the amount we had last year, which will allow for more resources."
Alternatives: "nearly double the amount" or "close to twice the amount".
Russia has almost twice the amount of military personnel compared to that of Ukraine.
Bond funds, meanwhile, took in $124 billion net of withdrawals in 2002, almost twice the amount in the previous year.
But his own salary, about $180,000, is almost twice the amount he was earning as an executive.
In December, Groupon sold about 1.14 billion yen's worth in coupons, almost twice the amount sold by the Ponpare site.
Last year, migrant workers worldwide sent more than $300 billion to developing countries — almost twice the amount of foreign direct investment.
Scientists estimate that there may be as much as 1,400 gigatonnes of carbon currently trapped in the frozen Arctic soil, almost twice the amount of carbon that is in the Earth's atmosphere today.
Seventy-five bislion hours is an extremely difficult number to conceptualize, but, in practical terms, it represents about twice the amount of time Americans spend on Facebook, an attention-based company worth almost $350 billion. .
Adelaide was declared the hottest city in the world by the United Nations World Meteorological Organisationn, with the temperature hitting 44.2C High electricity use and generation plant outages put a major strain on electricity supplies, with Victorians using almost twice the average amount of power for a January weekday.
The report describes South Korea as the most advanced LTE market worldwide, with half of its total mobile connections now running on LTE networks – compared to just a fifth (20%) in Japan and the U.S. According to the research, LTE users in developed markets consume 1.5GB of data per month on average — almost twice the average amount consumed by non-LTE users in those markets.
This is almost twice the median amount spent on CAMs in other studies [ 10, 46, 50].
