The phrase "and once almost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a past event or situation that nearly occurred but did not fully happen.
Example: "I was ready to give up, and once almost did, but then I found the motivation to keep going."
Alternatives: "and nearly" or "and at one point almost".
But even more, it reminded me that the battle that has consumed, tormented and once almost destroyed our country is still raging.
Many of Google's decisions have far-reaching consequences, with the maps driving increased traffic to quiet neighborhoods and once almost provoking an international incident in 2010 after it misrepresented the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
The formal dining room contains a Venetian glass chandelier that weighs, literally, a ton, and once almost broke through to the floor below when it fell from the ceiling.
Paver very nimbly uses three different viewpoints (Hylas, Pirra and a dolphin called Spirit), and perhaps the most memorable and feeling scenes are those in which Spirit intuits the children's plight, and responds to it, several times allowing them to hold on to her fin and speed away from danger (and once almost drowning Hylas in the process).
Arbitration clauses in contracts between both consumers and companies and employers and employees, once almost unheard of, have multiplied over the past several decades.
By 1970, large plantations of cloves and coconuts, once almost exclusively the property of fewer than 50 Arab families, had been redistributed.
Her often dangerous roles -- she climbed rock faces barefoot and was once almost swept away by an avalanche provoked by Fanck -- also showed her to be fearless.
In this feature this mature woman resembles the subject of Degas's most famous ballet statue, "The Little 14-Year-Old Dancer," who appears twice at the Met, once small and nude, once almost life-size in costume.
I know a man in Tampa who was out of work for nine months after losing his job at Walmart, and more than once almost ended up on the street with his wife and two children.
And divorce rates, once almost nonexistent, are rising.
All that slicing and dicing and chopping and souffle-ing crushes the soul of someone who at best can make a decent peanut butter sandwich and, at worst, once almost set a bowl of Jell-O on fire.
