The phrase "a narrow close" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, space, or perspective that is limited or restricted in scope or width.
Example: "As I walked through the village, I found myself in a narrow close, surrounded by tall buildings that blocked out the sunlight."
Alternatives: "a tight space" or "a confined area".
Even as Sugar beckons him, with an almost imperceptible gesture, to follow her into a dark, narrow close, he turns his head back into the fresher air and sniffs deeply, trying to snatch a second wind.
These animals have a narrow groove close to each nostril that connects the upper lip with the nostril.
Compare to traditional Genetic Algorithm (GA), those preferred solutions were concentrated in a narrow region close to the projection point instead of the entire Pareto-front.
As for BHA/glass materials prepared from initial mixtures of different particle size, their porosity falls in a narrow range close to that of SCP/glass materials.
Experimental sites are situated on two opposite-exposed slopes: north-east (NE) and south-west (SW) aspects of a narrow valley close to the city of Tuttlingen.
PE only in the oceanic crust produces surface displacements mostly in a narrow zone close to the trench (Figure 4b) while PE only in the continental upper plate produces displacements across a broader zone (Figure 4a).
The results indicate that the distortion effects are concentrated in a narrow region close to the stagnation point of the leading edge, with dimension of the order of its radius of curvature.
This is in agreement with findings of a similar study [29] where oxygen incorporation underneath the Pt took place in a narrow zone close to the TPB.
They also compared reaction norms and found that all individual genotypes conformed to a narrow range close to the average response across all temperatures, suggesting that a range of morphological traits in D. pseudoobscura are liable to show plastic responses to temperature and with only limited influence of GxEs.
