The phrase "and constituted almost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a quantity or proportion that is nearly complete or significant in relation to a whole.
Example: "The committee was composed of various members, and constituted almost half of the total participants."
Alternatives: "and made up nearly" or "and accounted for almost".
This was to form the basis of the Louvre's Greco-Roman gallery and constituted almost the entire Borghese collection of antiquities, sold to Napoleon by Paolina's husband, the already immensely wealthy Camillo Borghese.
Similarly, chytrid fungi, absent from the hydrothermal or temperate sediment sites studied so far, were well represented in the DI data and constituted almost 5% of all unique 18S rRNA gene sequences detected there.
We found no or very low levels of drug resistance before treatment, but during treatment failure resistant viruses effectively out-competed wild-type variants and constituted almost 100% of the viral population.
The truncated Tcf7l2 mRNA was the predominant isoform in the embryonic thalamus (Fig. 1f) and constituted almost 70%% of all of the estimated mRNA molecules for this gene (Fig. 1g; this estimation was made by subtracting the short form-specific RT-qPCR measurement from the value obtained with a pair of primers common to all isoforms).
It takes up a third of the book and constitutes almost a volume in itself, illustrated with snapshots, contact sheets, newspaper cuttings, self-portraits, letters, and scribbled pages from Arbus's notebooks filled with lists of subjects, memos, quotations.
Myopia was the most common type of ametropia affecting about 75% of pathologists and constituting almost 85% of all vision defects.
Myosin Va has been shown to be widely expressed in many presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons in the central and the peripheral nervous systems and constitute almost 0.3% of all proteins in the brain (13).
In 2003, there were 75,389 horses registered in the stud book, and they constituted almost 66 percent of the horses in Spain.
Most of the quotes represent GPs and nurses, which only partly reflects the composition of the focus groups; NAs and APs constituted almost a third of the participants.
Exports have grown slowly compared with those from other big economies (see chart): a baffling mixture of scrap metal and pearls has constituted almost two-thirds of Britain's sales to India recently, the select committee found.
The study reported 31% schoolchildren aged 8-16-year old suffered oral pain and decayed component constituted almost the entire dmft/DMFT index.
