Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
quasi-totalité
English translation:
almost all of (it)
French term
United States
Legal, Finance and Life Sciences
Native in: Bulgarian 
, English 
Works in: English to Bulgarian, Bulgarian to English, French to Bulgarian, and 3 more.
quasi-totalité
| 5 | almost all of (it) |
Hervé Kpodékon Azifan
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| 5 +4 | almost 100% |
Conor McAuley
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Mar 3, 2021 14:09: Tony M changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Mar 3, 2021 16:31: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "Medical: Pharmaceuticals"
Mar 5, 2021 18:50: Hervé Kpodékon Azifan Created KOG entry
Mar 5, 2021 18:53: Hervé Kpodékon Azifan changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/3141721">Hervé Kpodékon Azifan's</a> old entry - "quasi-totalité "" to ""almost all of (it)""
Mar 5, 2021 18:53: Hervé Kpodékon Azifan changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/3141721">Hervé Kpodékon Azifan's</a> old entry - "quasi-totalité "" to ""almost all of (it)""
Non-PRO (3): Conor McAuley, philgoddard, Tony M
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Proposed translations
United States
Master's Degree in Linguistics Applied
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
almost all of (it)
The sentence building just avoids the use of a second use of ''pourcentage'' after ''quasi-totalité''.
It could have been easier to translate ''la quasi-totalité de ce pourcentage'' which means ''almost 100%''.
Hence, avoiding the use of ''percentage'' another time in the same sentence, ''almost all of it'' is the best formulae.
France
Excellence, Expertise & Experience
Native in: English (Variants: Irish, British, Wales / Welsh, UK, Scottish)
Works in: French to English, English
almost 100%
If you want to avoid repeating "percent":
almost all
almost complete x (x = whatever the text is talking about)
or similar
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Note added at 7 mins (2021-03-03 13:46:32 GMT)
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https://www.wordreference.com/fren/quasi-totalité
Covered here before, in glossary:
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https://www.proz.com/kudoz/english-to-french/law-contracts/5...
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Note added at 9 mins (2021-03-03 13:47:58 GMT)
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Note added at 3 hrs (2021-03-03 17:29:05 GMT)
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almost all
(depending on overall context)
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Note added at 1 day 22 hrs (2021-03-05 12:25:56 GMT) Post-grading
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"almost all" posted by me at 3 hours -- see above.
Hervé's answer, "almost all of (it)" posted at 1 day 4 hrs.
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philgoddard
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Thanks Phil!
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Tony M
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Thanks Tony!
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AllegroTrans
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Thanks Chris!
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Cyril Tollari
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Thanks Cyril!
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