ほぼ
almost, nearly
Two lines left on the last page and then he is done. Ho ほ, bo ぼ. Not finished, but near enough that he is saying so: ほぼ.
ほとんど is almost as in nearly all of it. ほぼ is closer to roughly, and it goes in front of numbers.
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