'approached close' is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It is frequently used to describe how someone or something drew nearer to something else. For example, "The silence was broken when the horse approached close to the edge of the lake."
When the sea lions approached close, seemingly as curious about us as we were about them, their big brown eyes were encircled by light fur that looked like makeup.
Correlations among stocks have approached close to 90%.
Protective layers deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) can be much thinner than those prepared by physical vapor deposition; the YSZ/GDC thickness ratio for a stable operation approached close to a theoretical value when the ALD was used.
This may be because (1) these hydrocarbons are heavier than those in the lighter fraction, and their strong intermolecular binding energies reduced their evaporation rates and (2) the vapors of these hydrocarbons approached close to saturation, thus greatly impeding their vaporization, which resulted in them showing greatly lower mass loss than the lighter fraction.
Of note is the fact that three tropical cyclones approached close to, or made landfall on, Mexico during a ten-day span from June 23 to July 3.
Figure 2 shows an example of a short cyclic peptide (10 residues) where PEPstrMOD approached close to the native structure while the ab initio model performed poor.
As it approached closer to the Gulf Coast of the United States, Chris curved slightly east of north.
But when we approached closer, they were already dead," lieutenant Tri Wibowo told Kompas.com, a local media outlet.
This may cause fusion reactions to occur if the nuclei ever approach close enough for it to be operative.
This number approaches close to 1 for a good metal like fcc-Al, but is found significantly below unity for Al-based CMAs [31].
It is evident that as (mu) approaches close to 1 or 2, the numerical solution by the presented hybrid method in previous sections converges to the exact solution.
