The phrase "and close by a" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is nearby or adjacent, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The park is located near the river, and close by a small café."
Alternatives: "and nearby a" or "and adjacent to a".
But Maradona was sitting there as his side, Al Wasl, were losing 2-0 Al Al Shabab and, close by, a section of home crowd morons were picking on his defenceless girlfriend.
WESTMORLAND: The best place to be during the recent heatwave has been nicely submerged in a Lake District pool – preferably with a waterfall at one end, pleasantly shadowed by an overhanging rowan and close by a bank of sweet-scented thyme.
The President's remote hideaway featured a vast swimming pool, a gold-topped fence and close by, an international airport big enough for Concorde to land.
Often they are opened and closed by a vertical steel stopper rod, which is enclosed in refractory sleeves and partly immersed in the liquid steel.
Almost all bus-stop shelters are open to the strongest winds and closed by a panel where there is seldom a breeze.
The exhaust gases pass through poppet valves in the cylinder head that are opened and closed by a cam-follower mechanism.
One of its stops was a hilly factory town seven miles from Alton, also along the Schuylkill and closer by a few miles to the country farmhouse to which we had moved, at my mother's instigation, after the war.
In five cases of group 1, large perforations were found on the sinus membrane and closed by a collagen membrane.
The chamber uses a thermal As4 cell opened and closed by a linear shutter that reduces the beam equivalent pressure (BEP) by ca. 100 times (1.2 × 10−5 to 2.7 × 10−7 mbar).
In this study, however, there were five cases of eight cases in which the sinus membrane was perforated and closed by a collagen membrane and the sinus augmentation was done successfully.
Doors are opened and closed by an electric motor on the car.
