The phrase "a near relation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who is closely related to another person, typically in a familial context.
Example: "She is a near relation of mine, being my cousin's daughter."
Alternatives: "close relative" or "immediate family member".
"The father of those children was a near relation of the Jeffersons," Parton wrote, "who need not be named".
Only the post-breakup anthem "Best Thing I Never Had," a near relation to "Irreplaceable," finds her ceding a loss, and even then she obviously maintains the upper hand.
The Cop-out, a near relation to the Letdown, is essentially a failed Closer: it involves not following through on the promise of the premise — on the most recent season of the modern-day "Sherlock," for instance, the death and resurrection of Sherlock was left teasingly unexplained, or multiply explained, in a way that delighted the makers' ingenuity more than the viewers' desire for an end.
If the FRS knew Hartley as a friend, he would know him to be a mathematician with a special interest in statistics, an amateur violinist, and a vegetarian who saw animals as bearing a "near relation" to humans.
Miranda Field: 'I' is a near relation, but not she who brushes her teeth with my toothbrush.
But, in Lowry, one suspects, he also sensed an uncomfortably near relation, one who also struggled with an unfinishable novel, "October Ferry to Gabriola".
Additionally, 58 (30%) of the 191 nurses had either a relative or near relation who had been exposed to IPV.
This study showed that 13% of the nurses had personal experiences with IPV and one out of three had a relative or near relation who had been exposed to IPV.
Pope et al. (2011) also reported a near linear relation of lung cancer risk with estimated daily PM2.5 dose in an analysis that integrated information on lung cancer risk associated findings of risk from diverse combustion sources.
Effective coupling of heart to artery may be defined as the optimal transfer of blood from heart to periphery without excessive changes in blood pressure, and it has been reported that an Ea/Ees coupling ratio of 0.6 to 1.2 represents a near optimal relation between work and efficiency [ 44].
In a few, like our near relations the bonobos, or distant ones like ringtailed lemurs, females are clearly the dominant sex.
