The phrase "an almost double" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly or approximately double in quantity or size, but not quite.
Example: "The new budget is an almost double of last year's, reflecting our growth and expansion."
Alternatives: "nearly double" or "approximately double".
The use of a fixed quantity of catalyst placed packed or randomly distributed in the reactor, results in an almost double degradation for the distributed catalyst.
With a small loading of MoS2, the heterojunction demonstrates an almost double enhancement on the RhB and ~ 50% enhancement on phenol photodegradation performances compared to those of bare Ag3PO4 [68, 166, 167].
On the other hand, at the same time, they had an almost double risk for developing sleep disturbances.
Patients receiving the combined treatment presented an almost double mean survival compared to those who received only chemotherapy (13.6 (12.3–14.9) versus 7.5 (6.1 8.9) months).
Patients who received this treatment presented an almost double mean survival compared to those who received only chemotherapy (13.6 versus 7.5 months).
In a meta-analysis of 34 studies comprising 153 180 CHF patients, anaemia was associated with an almost double crude mortality risk and a 1.5 times higher adjusted mortality risk at 6 months (crude OR, 1.96; adjusted hazard ratio, 1.46).
An impressive finding was an almost doubling of moderate-severe pain from 5%to8.5%5% over the 13-year study period.
A country with an almost double-digit deficit cannot add to its deficit in the middle of a sovereign debt storm to cut tax, presumably on a temporary basis, because you would have to then put it back up again to deal with the deficit.
George Osborne made clear to Brogan at the weekend that he and Cameron would resist this when he said: A country with an almost double-digit deficit cannot add to its deficit in the middle of a sovereign debt storm to cut tax, presumably on a temporary basis, because you would have to then put it back up again to deal with the deficit.
That represents an almost doubling of Thaksin's money — he paid £21.6m to buy City in June 2007.
Those figures are not unconnected with a tripling in the number of smokers and an almost doubling of obesity rates.
