The phrase "acquired close to" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used when trying to express that something was obtained or gained in proximity to a certain point or location, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "The data was acquired close to the original site of the experiment."
Alternatives: "obtained near" or "gained in proximity to".
The mill's last general manager, James Beesley, 80, acquired close to a third of the stock and negotiated the sale.
Since launching in October, his group, Need to Impeach, has acquired close to five million online signatures for its impeachment petition.
For example, BrasilAgro, a firm controlled by one of Argentina's biggest agribusinesses, Cresud, has acquired close to 200,000 hectares in four years and is trying to buy much more.More from lessBut Brazil should not need to clear more rainforest to accommodate this growth.
For volumetric FMT reconstructions, 12 angular projections distributed over full 360° range were acquired close to the excitation and emission wavelengths of PSS-794.
To date, Clark says it has acquired close to 100,000 customers for its digital insurance services, making it one of the largest digital insurance players in Europe.
Fig. 7e gives the EDX line profile of the region (A) and Fig. 7f displays EDX line profiles acquired close to the region B. Fig. 6 Off-axis holography on solar cell with CIGS of high Cu content.
The functional data were then spatially aligned to the volume acquired closest to each subject's anatomical image.
To build multivariate calibration models, the three spectra acquired closest to the times of HPLC measurements (see Section 2.3) were averaged and imported into Matlab®.
Preprocessing steps for each subject consisted of slice-time correction, registration to the volume acquired closest to the high-resolution anatomy, spatial smoothing with a 4.5-mm full-width half-maximum Gaussian filter, and mean-based intensity normalization of all volumes by the same factor.
Indeed, Mr. Sillerman said, Mr. Mays "has ended up acquiring close to 150 radio stations we used to own".
As it races to finish its $858 million expansion and renovation, the Museum of Modern Art has also been acquiring close to $40 million worth of paintings, drawings and sculpture, hoping to reopen in a year with an even richer permanent collection than before.
