How To Use Closer In A Sentence
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Pluto, which has the greatest orbital eccentricity of any of the Solar System planets, was during those years at perihelion and actually closer than Neptune to the Sun.
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Steve up-anchored and obliged, taking us closer inshore to drop anchor on top of a wreck where the lads caught pouting three at a time.
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However, look a little closer, amid a region that stretches from the foothills east of the Pan-American Highway toward the Pacific Ocean, and there are a number of white wines with real character.
The Catch of the Day
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RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
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The closer he came the heavier the scent of barley-based ale became.
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As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain.
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On closer inspection a radiologist's report confirmed an impacted fracture, but the report never reached Dr Blakeley.
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Worse, the insurgents appear to be operating closer to Kabul.
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At last she gave her familiar nicker and stepped closer so he could gently rub her neck.
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Despite a string of victories-the judge's stinging decision enumerating Allen's "fraudulent modus operandi," occasional media coverage, and the support of real CIA agents and military heroes-he is no closer to collecting the $40,000 he says was "conned" from his family in 1993.
Edgar Allen
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In the marginals the battle was much closer than the national polls suggested.
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At the same time, we move further away from the great villas and estates of the Roman world and closer to the family farms of the Middle Ages.
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Unlike much of the valley, the shrubs and trees closer to the building were unburnt.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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We are not talking boxercise here, but something much closer to the real thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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What she did notice was how the avenues and streets became more organized and concentrated the closer they went to the center.
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As we drew closer to the system I cut the engines and let the Moonshadow coast the rest of the way in.
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It will be closer to L.A. without actually being there, and let's face it, the hotel room gouging is really out of hand.
San Diego Convention Center Plans $753 million Expansion in Bid to Keep Comic-Con | /Film
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But a country that is even closer to Indonesia is Australia and there are still pygmies in Australia too.
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If you're prone to a shank, you'll probably find that even your good shots are closer to the heel.
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Up closer he could smell the sweet scent of her perfume, he only just realised too how incredibly beautiful she was.
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The incident pushed the two countries closer towards a serious diplomatic confrontation.
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The lady watched fretfully as the men came closer to hitting Mack with their bullets and ran much faster than before as their rage intensified.
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The ranks of nonconformity thrived in an expanding economy of independency where the artisan might still feel closer to the petty capitalist than to the unskilled labourer.
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At a glance, the house seems relatively liveable, but on closer inspection, the structure is tilted to one side and the floor has completely collapsed.
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The white guy was closer to sixty than to fifty, and his shaggy white-blond hair was shot with grey, and he'd given up trying to hide the bald spot on top.
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The cloud systems I am interested in exploring acknowledge this legacy but also situate themselves one step closer to an interest in the particles themselves.
Carla Leitao: Cloud Architecture
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The numerical example shows that the combination results gained by this new combination rule are closer to the presentative judgment of human.
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Ash was now falling on to the ships, darker and denser the closer they went, together with pieces of pumice and rocks that were blackened and shattered by fire.
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The Healthcare Commission should also reserve the right to take a closer look, randomly as well as responsively.
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On closer inspection, the pipe connector had split.
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This year the Cohen clan may be spending Christmas a little bit closer to home.
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It does this by creating an atmosphere that is closer to poetry than to traditional prose narrative.
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They say it is a way to avoid a closer look at the venture.
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But ascetics, nuns, and unordained members of religious associations of men were not originally in the ranks of the clergy, and, strictly speaking, are not so even to-day, though, on account of their closer and more special dependence on ecclesiastical authority, they have long been included under the title clergy in its wider sense (see RELIGIOUS).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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It was covered in fucoid algae and delicate yellow and orange plumose anemones that drew us in closer, as there were often a few gems nestling in them.
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After he did this he pulled me closer, hugging me tightly against him.
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And then, he saw Nathan waving a hand, signaling him to come closer.
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Because the work is demanding and intimate, they see themselves as closer to therapists than to hookers - and have deep, long-lasting ties to their regulars.
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Closer to home, road hauliers warned of possible transport stoppages and demonstrations to highlight the effect of the oil price hike on their business.
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How can we provide our pets with nutrition closer to what nature intended?
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Most of Romsey's foliate heads are closer to animal than to human form: this one is very cat-like, and is the source of copious vegetation.
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No less impressive is the sound design, which is seemingly standard, but upon closer examination reveals a developed awareness of off-screen space and spatial relations.
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A closer examination revealed layers of cloth, meticulously woven together to catch the eye.
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In the next sections we'll take a closer look at each of the best practices by discussing how they may translate to the moviemaking business.
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However, a closer look at the tissue of the dream reveals the most precarious of balances between the concerns of the individual and those of the family and community.
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Because the Miocene is closer to the present day than most other periods of geologic time, it is easier to see the effects of events, and to interpret patterns.
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The second pair again one was the getter-in-the-way standing right by the doors so that other passengers had to stand that much closer to his mate who did the pocket dipping.
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His record was equally impressive closer to home.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bones, upon closer inspection, were covered in verdigris, and bigger than normal human bones.
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Microphones now dangle discretely over the pews, so the congregation can hear each other sing; the bema , or stage, has been lowered and the front rows made movable, so that the clergy can feel closer to the congregation.
After Fire, Temple Rises
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We performed the procedure using electrical rather than high potassium stimulation, because it yields a closer representation of the physiological condition found during tetanic stimulation.
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Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus?
Cosmic Consciousness
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If rules are set then follow them, places that have designated smoking areas are already one step closer to a complete ban and by bending the rules you are not helping yourself or fellow smokers.
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Then she pressed herself closer to him, murmuring something in Gaelic, and his expression dissolved in shock.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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The report called for better monitoring of malnutrition and fluid intake and closer control of pain.
The Sun
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Lisa accurately predicts the winners of sporting events that Homer gambles on so she can be closer to her father.
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They're becoming more serious as the provincials and Western Championship get closer.
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But then the path would bend, and there it would be again, closer.
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Commercial logic has forced the two parts of the company closer together.
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Darren leaned closer to shout above the music, `They dinna look oppressed to me.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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He wanted to bring the audience and the actors closer together so he built an apron stage over the orchestra pit at the Savoy.
Times, Sunday Times
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A closer glance told me it was Angelo.
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It would make me feel good to know I had in someway helped ease you closer to whatever it is you want so badly.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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If breakfast is insufficient you come closer to the exhaustion of hepatic and muscular glycogen.
The Sun
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Today retirees are increasingly leaving the shires and suburbs for the inner city, to be closer to theatres and restaurants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
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Well, often what you'll see in a pergola is a lot more lattice going in closer together and going perpendicular to that, creating the surface for the growing vine and to block sun, of course.
CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2005
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Come a bit closer and you'll be able to see better.
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Closer investigation revealed that all of those messages were bounced spams promoting an online casino in Costa Rica.
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She said the tragedy had brought the tight-knit community even closer together.
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Although it was initially expected to fetch €3m-plus at auction, the one-time choirgirl is believed to have paid closer to €2m for it.
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In English, the term "bitch" might be closer to conveying what he meant, Mr. Misdaq said.
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They viewed Daley as being closer to the new element than to his political and cultural heritage namely, them.
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The dogs were nearing her, coming closer; their teeth bared, snarling viciously
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Here I've completely re-made the first few shots using the original bluescreen footage - took a few nights but the clip you are now watching is closer to how the film appeared in my head.
Archive 2010-05-01
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In canines and molars, this line is present closer to the incisal/occlusal part of the enamel, with only a small portion of prenatally formed enamel present
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A closer look at the census figures shows a much more disturbing trend.
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Why could a wedding be closer than you think possible?
The Sun
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They might have to hire more front-line staff, cut the pen-pushers and be prepared to work closer with community groups.
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The two marching columns moved closer and finally merged .
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She came home demanding to know why we hadn't got an inch closer to catching this madman.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The only other interaction between an antimicrobial drug and alcohol is with cycloserine, an anti-tuberculosis drug – the two together increase the risk of convulsions.
Doctor, doctor: Alcohol and antibiotics, milk and prostate cancer
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The foreleg, which is attached to the thigh by a very flexible articulation, is also a double-edged saw, but the teeth are smaller, more numerous, and closer than those of the thigh.
Social Life in the Insect World
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Closer to home, I use up any under-ripe fruit in a cinnamon crumble as a treat for the children.
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I spoke quietly, calmingly, easing closer to him as I did so.
Renegade's Magic
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The group then moved closer to where the marked UN vehicles were parked and another shot hit a building next to them, knocking pieces of masonry to the ground near her.
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The department is interested in developing closer links with industry.
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Instead he wrapped his arm around the front of my stomach and pulled me closer.
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There is not much difference, except in the "soothfastness"; the author is closer to his subject, his imagination is confronted with something very near reality, and is not helped, as in the older stories, by traditional imaginative modifications of his subject.
Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
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In order to make the streak image closer to the actual object and to improve the measuring precision, this paper presents a correction algorithm based on image processing.
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She grew increasingly nervous as the date of the audition drew closer.
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I personally think イルカー (irukaa) would be a closer pronunciation of "Ilker" using Japanese syllabary.
Your Name in 5 Different Scripts
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At first glance there seemed to be nothing on the mussel beds, but closer inspection revealed a few Curlews, and about 100 Golden Plovers.
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Warne is closer to Steve's twin, Mark, and he has not always agreed with the captain - but you will not winkle an ounce of dissent out of him.
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The biggest surprise was Everett's Holmes: a compelling, brilliant, darkly original character, much closer to the original stories than to the deerstalkers and meerschaums and Basil Rathbone.
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It was also the beginnings of the crush where we were and crowd surfers began coming closer to our heads.
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Such a division is described as dexiotropic if the clockwise daughter cell (in animal pole view) is the closer to the animal pole; in a laeotropic division the counterclockwise cell is closer to the animal pole.
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As colors get closer to each other on the wheel, the more soothing their effect when combined.
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Such activity is closer to tax avoision, where avoidance shades into evasion, than are the government-sponsored schemes which are now to be arbitrarily chopped back.
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As we came closer we could make out two men in a life raft with dye marker showing and flailing their arms wildly in the air pleading to be seen.
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You may be closer to the truth than any of us will ever know ... what with the corruption and back-scratching going on among and between many of our government officials and private-interest groups.
Taking Odds On A Western Wolf Hunt
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However, as the tall white car ferry draws closer to a coastline of seemingly unscalable cliffs, my thoughts are drawn to the portion of the 19th century when this was French territory and the island's most famous resident—Napoleon—was exiled here.
Downsizing From an Empire to an Island
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He was a friend of theirs, a good man and trusty, and in the days before he knew Nayla, Haugh had been, for a long sweet summer, much closer friends with the forgeman™s daughter than with the smith himself.
The Lioness
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Big radar screens allowed them to view the closer shipping movements and others, further out, were plotted on a big map.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The other two photographs are closer, and shows many birds dead, some near death and very few still standing.
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As we approached the coast we started to fly over buildings and roads, growing denser the closer we got to the airport.
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The optician moved the chart closer: " Now can you read it?
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With a General Election getting ever closer, it would be neglectful of me not to examine what Yorkshire's farming industry wants from the next Government.
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As he drew closer he saw the different parts of the ship: the bulkhead, the mast, and the tattered remains of a sail.
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He merely jerked her forward so that she was much closer to him than she would ever like to be.
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Hopping from heist to heist, with the fuzz getting ever closer, the rivalry that has flared escalates and the cracks in this already untenable threesome begin to widen.
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The antigen was more abundant in the zone adjacent to the plasma membrane than in the zone closer to the external wall surface.
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His plays have a closer relationship to the pre-20th century high comedies than to the naturalistic comedies of our own time.
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All the while the pregnancy ticks away… closer and closer to the 24 week mark at which point abortion becomes difficult and dangerous.
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This of course is science's strength, rather than its weakness, its ability to self-correct and approximate ever closer to a possible underlying truth.
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We weren't really in the nudie business, although we were closer to that category than any other.
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Ben, an awkward adolescent, is closer to being a successfully evolved man than the grown ones he encounters.
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She will tell universities they must forge closer links with their local communities and schools.
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Closer to home, in England's West Country, a man woke with a start when he found a deer lurking in his bedroom after a night of heavy downpours and gale force winds.
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However, I do believe recent discoveries of the inherent use of quantum conductivity in photosynthesis and quantum computation in DNA lends support to the idea that we may be getting closer to better defining the gray area between the emperical and the metaphysical.
Aiguy's Computer
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They all recognized him when he came closer, and they watched him with that peculiar concertedness which seizes upon an expectant company, until he dismounted at the corral gates and came toward them.
The Range Boss
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We view skin-to-skin care as a major advance in helping parents develop a closer tie to their infant.
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Indeed the idea of a great public duel between the two men dissolves on closer examination; in fact, they had little direct contact.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at.
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Supply and fix all necessary associated flashings, galvanised gutters, fillers, ventilated fillers, closers and fixings to form a totally weathertight construction on completion.
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If the two don't speak to each other, the world edges closer to the precipice of total war.
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With Beaujolais, bigger is not necessarily better, but this wine transcends Beaujolais; it's closer to a red burgundy.
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The muffled bellows were the only sounds he could make as his face was pushed closer and closer to the glowing rings.
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The flavour of the pink varieties has a pleasant acidity like that of the cherimoya, while that of the green varieties is sweeter and closer to the sugar-apple.
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Fieldwork was planned to coincide with high tides, which allowed the johnboat to travel closer to the marsh edge and further up tributary creeks.
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Much of this outpouring to inform and educate or miseducate the public may well have been illegal under McCain-Feingold if we were closer to November 2012.
We Are All Citizens United
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They then ask the reader to take a closer look, reflecting the in-depth analysis in the articles.
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The other group of opinions came from closer to home and bewailed the errors of the past.
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With each passing year, geophysicists get closer to mapping the layer in fine detail.
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The bottle he cradled almost stereotypically was clutched closer against his chest as if they were robbers.
THE LAST RAVEN
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He suddenly took a step closer to me, his hands tightening on my arms.
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It is hoped that this project will help the children to grow and prosper in an environment closer to that experienced by children within a family.
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The Costs for crossrail dropped because of design changes, not massive hidings in the budget, building a station a lot closer to the ground will save massive amounts.
Woolwich Crossrail overspend to be paid for by local business tax
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Evan pulled me closer, my forehead lightly grazing his chin.
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Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing.
Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year?
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I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. Steve Jobs
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As they drew closer, he could see the rider huddled over the neck of his mount.
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A sweet fragrance spritzed on your pulse points will make him move in a little closer.
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Under closer analysis, our supposedly cheap food supply becomes monumentally expensive.
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The infectious glam stomp of the closer Retreat explodes in delirious joy, a fitting high note on which to end.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's no story; no soppy lyrics; it's not exploitative or nasty; it's closer to circus, but with simpler tricks and better music.
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We are closer to realizing Dr. King's dream, but still have much farther to go.
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It hasn't brought them closer to striking a deal with the US, you believe it's pushed them the other way?
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As she answered the front door she saw her son had opened her bedroom window and was leaning out for a closer look.
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Catalytic converters are being mounted closer to the engines to improve their performance and exhaust manifolds are being integrated into cylinder heads.
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But the prospect of vigorous profit growth appears no closer than before.
Times, Sunday Times
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Usually at Cheltenham you're scrubbing the heads off your horses trying to get them closer.
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However at todays briefing they found no real cause for closer reinspection and things seem to be just fine in that regard.
Minor Damage Seen on Atlantis - NASA Watch
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Once they got a closer look at how scientists work, we thought, they might form more realistic impressions that would contradict traditional images of science as isolated and antisocial.
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Perhaps the best way to explain is to take a closer look at Rodriguez.
The Last Ace
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Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before, but emotionally he had crossed a frontier.
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For the upright, I used two mics: one cardioid large-diaphragm near the floor, pointing up at the bridge, and the xt up closer to the players' right hand to capture more of the string noise and attack.
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As we trickle day by day through the end of October and move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties.
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There's an FDA scientist who says his agcy is not capable of protecting Americans from another Vioxx and that there are five other drugs that should be given a much closer look.
CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2004
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The trees thinned as we got closer to the top of the mountain.
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The great sword swiped about, then again, and a third time, the momentum of each swing bringing raging Robert just a bit closer to his prey.
The Woods Out Back
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He hoped it would be able to cut his annual premium of about 2,900 to something closer to the 780 it cost before the most recent flood.
Times, Sunday Times
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If it was standard fitment, however, the cost would be closer to $50 per car in high volumes.
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Neanderthals and modern humans seem to have played out a similar story, much more compressed in time and much closer to our own day.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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What is more, the closer a nation approximates to the American model - a highly advanced and technologically developed form of modern capitalism - the greater the rate of mental illness amongst its citizens.
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His language is very accessible as it is closer to the speaking rather than the literary language.
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Globalisation in its classic sense means the historical process by which the world moves ever closer together.
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‘But you're too full of yourself to even give me a chance to talk… explain’ he fumed at her but he didn't move any closer to her.
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By growing a human stem cell colony from a single cell, researchers are one step closer to deriving a homogenous population of cells of a particular type.
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A closer look revealed that most of the breaks were angled "greenstick" fractures that occur in fresh bones.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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Couples counsellors suggest having an honest (but not brutal) exchange about what behavioural tweaks would bring you closer.
Times, Sunday Times
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For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimblet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the cairngorm.
The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
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Jiro waddled closer, his belly bulging and distended.
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So on closer inspection that year might not be a classic vintage.
Times, Sunday Times
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The guards opened the slightest crack in the door enough for her to slip through and beckon her closer.
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The customary smirk returned to Trey's lips and he about-faced, coming closer to the nervous young man.
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I would tuck the rear wheel in a little closer and steepen the seat tube angle, for compactness and to distribute a little weight to the feet.
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You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer.
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Florida State (9-4): Bobby Bowden is one of the best closers in recruiting and he added a big one in five-star CB Greg Reid and OL Aubrey Phillips late.
Breaking down how the poll's Top 25 fared in recruiting
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He may not be a gamebreaker, but he plays a lot closer to the gain line.
The Sun
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As I pushed the bike closer to the limit a problem emerged: even though the suspension was working as hard as it could, the bike began to buck beneath me.
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I moved closer to him and took his hand in mine, lacing our fingers together.
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Andrew Scott of Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham, United Kingdom, and colleagues used four kinds of microscopy to take a closer look at the odd debris, known as carbonaceous spherules.
News
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The department is interested in developing closer links with industry.
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Instead, why not spend the first three nights closer to the Wine Country and the national seashore?
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As he moved closer to climb inside he saw her face lit up by the moonlight.
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This simulates the kind of bubble formation that happens when water boils:small bubbles appear, and as they get closer to each other, they combine to form larger bubbles, which eventually pop.
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Taking a closer look, every fast-food restaurant points to its drive-through window as the benchmark for its service performance.
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At the ripe age of 26, the two were closer then ever and lived together in a house in rural New England.
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The process of achieving congruency brings us closer to our life goals, and it necessarily entails self-examination and insight.
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Less than half the population deposited money in a bank account in the most recent year; in most countries the proportion is closer to 90 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
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She slid closer and gave him a hug, pressing her head into his chest.
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They roared when catcher Carlos Ruiz — who made the final putout as closer Brad Lidge struck out Tampa Bay Rays pinch-hitter Eric Hinske — offered through a loudspeaker the Spanish version of "We're the champs": "Somos los campeones!
Series champs tip caps to long-suffering Philly fans
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Jamaica looked as if it would avoid a direct hit as the storm tracked northeast, away from the island and closer to Haiti.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blair pressed herself closer to him, while her hands glided across the corded muscles between his shoulder blades before lifting his shirt over his head.
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Honestly, we made the target because we managed, for once, to keep our ambitions closer to something realistically accomplishable.
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But the Gulf of California is closer than you think, and currently under assault by everything from pollution to poaching.
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The vagueness of the selectmen's assessment of whether or not to continue with the present workhouse or build another one closer to the center of town might indicate that the house had infrequent or sporadic use as a workhouse.
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Such critics maintain that movies are simply an escape from reality - that they offer pictures of life closer to myth than actual truth.
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The clip-clop of Dr. Vraille's shoes drew closer and Parie pressed back against her hiding place.
