The phrase "approach more closely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the act of getting nearer to something or someone, either physically or metaphorically.
Example: "As the storm approached more closely, we decided to seek shelter indoors."
Alternatives: "get nearer" or "move closer".
These are lives you want to approach more closely.
As these factors are increasingly brought under control or eliminated, the actual length of life will approach more closely the span of life.
Thus, the development of historical speculation in the 18th century was generally marked by a tendency to reject theological and providential interpretations in favour of an approach more closely aligned, in method and aim, to that adopted by natural scientists in their investigations of the physical world.
This approach more closely reproduced the groups'bestst estimate' values, and creates a logically consistent overall outcome.
Compounds 1 and 2 exhibit square-pyramidal geometry, while 4 8 approach more closely the trigonal bipyramidal prototype.
We believe that this approach more closely shows the correlation of individuals' decisions and also its effect on the decisions of the other group members.
When compared with the standard greedy relay selection method, the previous stage decision is more accurate and the global optimum can be approached more closely.
Results clearly show that suction reduces the effects of surface phenomena on the pressure drop approaching more closely the Hagen Poiseuille flow solution.
This phylogeny-based approach to orthology detection, approaches more closely the original definition of orthology and reflects more appropriately the complex evolutionary relationships within protein families [ 13, 14].
Physiotherapists, nurses and others we interviewed processed patients by drawing on psychological models - and "narrative reasoning" - approaches more closely identified with specialist clinical psychologists [ 24].
