The phrase "a close link to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong connection or relationship between two entities, ideas, or concepts.
Example: "The research findings show a close link to the effectiveness of the new treatment in patients."
Alternatives: "a strong connection to" or "a tight relationship with".
Unlike Blake, however, Apiafi will maintain a close link to the organisation, having been appointed to the board, while his new company's first client is expected to be the PJA.
Farage has said he will highlight Clegg's work as a lobbyist in Brussels, which he will claim amounts to a "direct link" to the Libyan Gaddafi regime and a "close link" to Putin's government.
Neither of these things is surprising: Ruddock was a forerunner of a new kind of technician-artist, with an atelier system (many of the later King Tubby mixes were made by other engineers in his studio) and a close link to the means of production.
Indeed, many small businesses have a close link to one or more universities from the outset.
Gabriela likens her preference for order and neatness and a close link to her engineering field of study.
In such settings, extensionists need cost-efficient tools or a close link to researchers to evaluate potential strategies and activities to raise farmers' income.
Grey matter changes have also been shown to correlate more closely with clinical abnormalities than white matter changes [ 23], and have a closer link to clinical symptoms than amyloid deposition [ 2, 24].
So Mr. Wildhorn, who is far more of a populist, seems a closer link to those composers who work on Broadway's brassy side, like John Kander and Fred Ebb, Jerry Herman and Cy Coleman.
A closer link to metabolic activity can be found in certain types of mRNA [30].
A positive result here would have demonstrated a closer link to matrix degaradation, as gelatin is a product of collagen, a major extacellular matrix protein.
Evidence from comparisons of the magnitude of dominance variance across characters suggests that this component of genetic variance is larger for traits with a closer link to fitness, such as life-history characters [6].
