The phrase "almost twofold the" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to describe a quantity that is nearly double another quantity, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The new policy has resulted in almost twofold the increase in productivity compared to last year."
Alternatives: "nearly double the" or "almost twice the".
Wrist fractures increase almost twofold the risk of subsequent hip or vertebral fractures, but also the risk of new forearm breakage and other skeletal fractures is increased by 3.3 and 2.4 times, respectively [ 24].
The mean annual expenses per patient were found to be US$ purchasing power parities (PPP) 12 175–14 029 for moderate visual impairment, US$ PPP 13 154–16 321 for severe visual impairment and US$ PPP 14 882–24 180 for blindness, almost twofold the costs for non-blind patients.
At a gentamicin concentration of 3.7 μg mL−1, the difference between the CFU values for free gentamicin and for the mixture was almost twofold, with the addition of NPs decreasing, not increasing, the bactericidal action of the antibiotic.
The population in the countries of the region increased almost twofold during the period 1970 1990, from 17.8 to 33.5 million (UN Water 2012).
The MST led to improvements in resolution of almost twofold over the standard S-Transform in the examples presented in the article.
When distance from the stationary monitoring site, elevation, and traffic are taken into account in the microenvironmental models, the adjusted R2 increased almost twofold for the fall personal exposure data.
All the aforementioned variables explain the almost twofold discrepancy in the incidence of delirium between the two cohorts.
Conversely, bone formation rate (BFR) also increased almost twofold in the gal-8 Tg mice compared with that of the control group (0.30 ± 0.03 μm/mm/day vs 0.55 ± 0.06 μm/mm/day, p < 0.005, Figure 9, right).
Pma1 protein level increases almost twofold in the absence of Sir2.
Among first-births, the rate of prelabour caesarean increased (from 6.5%too 11.7%) and was exceeded, almost twofold, by the rates of intrapartum caesarean in each year (12.5 20.2%).
Consistent with the general requirement of RSC function for transcription (Parnell et al., 2008), the mean expression of both coding and non-coding genes (but not tRNAs) was reduced almost twofold following the loss of RSC.
