The phrase "a close affinity to the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a strong connection or relationship between two entities or concepts.
Example: "The research revealed a close affinity to the cultural practices of the indigenous people."
Alternatives: "a strong connection to the" or "a deep relationship with the".
The choreographers -- among them, Keely Garfield, the duo Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, Susan Rethorst, Donna Uchizono, and Susan Marshall -- may not know it, absorbed as they are in the traditions of modern dance, but their play with the everyday has a close affinity to the conversational dances that Jerome Robbins made uptown with the New York City Ballet.
At a given strain, the proportion of low angle grain boundaries (LAGBs) shows a close affinity to the Zener Hollomon parameter (Z) and the relation can be expressed as LAGBs% = (−10.2 ± 5) + 4 log Z, which well describes the relation between the deformed microstructure and deformation parameters.
"Especially someone who has a close affinity to the club and who spent nine good years of their career there". Portsmouth have been in administration since February 2012 and are said to be £61m in debt.
Recent molecular and morphological findings suggest a close affinity to the segmented Annelida.
Although the current data allow only limited inference of the phylogenetic history of N. fasciatus, we can definitely rule out a close affinity to the genus Altolamprologus, which has been suggested due to superficial morphological similarities [ 14].
This group of locusts has a closer affinity to the outgroup, the African migratory locust, than the other two groups, and shows a strong within-group divergence pattern.
Diphydontosaurus is one of the least phylogenetically nested rhynchocephalians, but the stout teeth with prominent radial ridges of the Vinita specimen [ 14] suggest a closer affinity to the more derived Planocephalosaurus from the Late Triassic of the UK [ 22].
Using inversion and breakpoint analyses of metazoan mitochondrial genomes, we test conflicting hypotheses for the phylogenetic placement of Xenoturbella and find a closer affinity to the hemichordates than to other metazoan groups.
He rejected some alternatives, such as a close affinity to aardvarks or the possibility that the material assigned to Plesiorycteropus did not in fact represent a single animal.
Originally a lyric poet, Tunström wrote prose rich in fantasy and humour and with a close affinity to music, as in Juloratoriet (1983; The Christmas Oratorio).
