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"was almost completed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about something that had a process or timeline with an endpoint that wasn't fully completed yet. For example: The project was almost completed, but there were still some elements to finish before the deadline.
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Pol Pot's insane scheme of restarting the calendar at Year Zero was almost completed.
It wasn't until Next to Love was almost completed that Feldman understood just how personal the story was.
Svadilfari gave his owner such assistance that the wall was almost completed a few days before the end of winter.
Judge Farnan will use the decision to determine the future of the trial in Delaware; the trial was almost completed when it was suspended.
Within days of the reward's announcement, Yemen's Interior Ministry, which had said that the Yemeni inquiry was almost completed, reversed its position and said further investigation was needed.
Fitzgerald's private project -- "The Last Tycoon" -- was kept secret, was almost completed, was eventually published and was even made into a major motion picture.
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The primary objective is almost completed.
That task is almost completed, she said.
The vacuum system will be almost completed by the end of this March.
After a vision system performs all these stages, the task in hand is almost completed.
It is almost completed, and will truly be one of the wonders of our modern world.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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