Almost or nearly?
We use almost and nearly to refer to the progress of things, especially if we are measuring and counting things. In these examples, almost and nearly can both be used: …

almost | American Dictionary

almost
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈɔlˌmoʊst, ɔlˈmoʊst/
nearly but not quite:
It’ll cost almost as much to repair your computer as to buy a new one.
We were bitten by mosquitoes almost every night.

Examples of almost

almost
In contrast, the nonspatial characteristics of the target (such as its weight or function) are almost completely unlikely to change after the movement is planned.
Most disturbing is the finding that once players learn that their opponent has either cooperated or defected, almost all defect.
Because instrumented code is (almost) ordinary source, it can be processed by the ordinary compiler.
Again, in this application the theory simplifies because of lack of a paternal genetic effect on the fruits (tomatoes are almost purely maternal tissue).
Limited almost exclusively to problems of spatial perception, that analysis gives short shrift to even the most fundamental issues of psychological or physiological import.
Clearly, for values of around 1, this cannot be expected because past inflation has almost no predictive power.
A brief excerpt, selected almost at random, may hint at its flavor.
To account for the simultaneous increase in length constant of the horizontal cell's receptive field, the junctional conductance would have to increase almost 8-fold.
The name has survived the demise of the political power with which it was originally identified by almost three centuries.
It almost seems as if the difficulties surrounding the 1929 conference made everyone involved hesitate to approach the issue again.
Yet despite the initial optimism surrounding it, the commission almost immediately suffered setbacks.
These temperatures are almost identical to those that occur at the time of cotyledon emergence in early spring.
It is almost certain that such an appearance never took place.
It also demonstrates why that process took almost twenty-five years to begin.
Patients assigned to the ' generalized eating disorder ' cluster were rated as having more severe symptoms in almost every respect except weight.
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