The phrase "almost without parallel" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly unique or unmatched in comparison to others.
Example: "Her talent for painting is almost without parallel in the art community."
Alternatives: "nearly unparalleled" or "virtually unmatched".
"It's almost without parallel".
The rapid increase in Egypt's population prompted an intensification of cultivation almost without parallel elsewhere.
From then onward he reached and maintained the height of his achievement a renewal of inspiration and a perfecting of technique that are almost without parallel in the history of English poetry.
A visit to Jodhpur logically starts with a trip to the hilltop citadel of Mehrangarh Fort, where, up a series of ramps and past the studded elephant gates is a historical fortress museum almost without parallel in India.
The historian Hugh N. Kennedy characterized the subsequent siege of the city as "an episode almost without parallel in the history of early Islamic society" and "the nearest early Islamic history saw to an attempt at social revolution", as Baghdad's urban proletariat defended their city for over a year in a vicious urban guerrilla war.
Vern Bullough, a secular humanist and senior editor of Free Inquiry, commented on the significance of the changes noting: The shedding of almost every doctrine the Worldwide Church of God once clung to is a story almost without parallel in American religious history.
Yet his fascination was all-consuming and he reproduced variants of it obsessively for almost two decades; an examination and homage described as "without parallel in the history of art".
The only previously known examples of Steiner triple systems of order congruent to 1(mod6) without almost parallel classes were the projective triple systems of order 2n−1 with n odd, and 2 of the 11,084,874,829 Steiner triple systems of order 19.
The civil-unions bill creates an institution for gay and lesbian couples almost entirely parallel to marriage, though without the name.
"It's almost a parallel language, where words switch places without regard to syntax or meaning, simply held together by some emotional thread.
Its main interest is Pop art and its postmodern derivatives, and it mixes in older artists whose work developed almost in parallel with if not in advance of Warhol's — Alex Katz, Richard Artschwager, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke — without sorting out who did what when.
