The phrase "almost two hours was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a duration of time that is nearly two hours in a past context.
Example: "Almost two hours was spent discussing the project details before we reached a conclusion."
Alternatives: "nearly two hours were" or "approximately two hours was".
Seven states have killed 26 men in 2014, including Joseph Wood, whose prolonged execution – "gasping and snorting" for almost two hours – is the third botched delivery of capital punishment this year.
After almost two hours being interrogated on everything from the details of Sam Allardyce's contract to homophobia at October's culture, media and sport select committee inquiry, question 90 was the curveball the Football Association chairman Greg Clarke certainly wasn't expecting.
Fluorine-18 is often found in radioactive tracers for positron emission tomography, as its half-life of almost two hours is long enough to allow for its transport from production facilities to imaging centers.
The Metropolitan police saying that the use of schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act to detain Miranda for almost nine hours was "legally and procedurally sound".
In a sense, the Streisand story — the story that kept the arena eerily quiet for almost three hours — was a distinctly American one: the world said no until she made it say yes.
By David Denby June 6, 2014 "The Longest Day," which clocks in at almost three hours, was a grandiose attempt, in 1962, to tell the story of the D Day landings from everybody's point of view.
The presentation, which lasted almost three hours, was all but over for Virgin after Edward Boches, Mullen's chief creative officer, said he wasn't a hands-on operator.
You turn to the music even more -- that's why 36 or some songs and almost four hours was so special".
The two arguments, over almost three hours, were by turns grave and giddy.
