The phrase "almost universal and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is widely accepted or prevalent, but not entirely so, often followed by a specific context or example.
Example: "The concept of democracy is almost universal and has been adopted by many nations around the world."
Alternatives: "nearly universal" or "widely accepted".
Now, adoption of foreign children is almost universal and is widely accepted, as it should be.
And of course struggles with the parent-child relationship are almost universal, and that's also something an audience can relate to".
The employment of piled structures to meet these requirements is almost universal, and a variety of techniques have evolved for handling and sinking into the seabed the long heavy piles required.
This pollution has rapidly become almost universal, and it is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates, not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues, is for the most part irreversible.
We will from today be using the name Myanmar, partly because it has become almost universal and partly because colonial names should be part of the past, along with the empires that gave rise to them.
Noyce used silicon, which is now almost universal, and found a way to build the interconnecting wires as well as the components on a single silicon chip, thus eliminating all soldered connections except for those joining the IC to other components.
A study, appearing Monday in Pediatrics, finds early adoption and "almost universal exposure" and use of mobile devices among young children.
It makes Mongolia's 2.5m people proportionately one of the world's biggest recipients of multinational aid.This vast, wild and landlocked country's future seems to offer so much: natural wealth and beauty, almost universal literacy and an educated elite.
That found almost universal derision and has become the stuff of celebrity legend.
It was received with almost universal rapture, and comparisons to Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson and Nico flooded in.
Michael Kustow London Kitaj's Tate retrospective did not draw "almost universal disparagement and ridicule".
