The phrase "are somewhat close" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that two things are near to each other in terms of distance, similarity, or agreement, but not exactly the same.
Example: "The two proposals are somewhat close in terms of budget, but they differ significantly in their approach."
Alternatives: "are fairly similar" or "are relatively near".
"If the price points are somewhat close, some consumers get duped into believing they're getting a real product," said Robert Barchiesi, president of the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, a trade group.
In that sense, both of the carbon films are somewhat close to the optical properties of graphene/graphite [16, 17].
T-Mobile has loyalty rates that are somewhat close to those of AT&T and Verizon, with 80% of existing T-Mobile customers that activated a phone in the quarter remaining with T-Mobile.
Yet the following web account is telling from an anonymous census worker who recounts how enumerators were encouraged to be less efficient in going door-to-door: "In an average suburban neighborhood where the houses are somewhat close to each other, it was no problem to do about 35 to 40 addresses per hour once you learned how to quickly enter data into the computer.
If these estimates are somewhat close to the truth a rapid response to selection is to be expected.
The temporal estimates of Ne range from 786 to 1375, but the lower limits of these large confidence intervals are somewhat close to the direct estimate of Ne ~700.
As China's press continued its campaign of support for the suppression of the "counterrevolutionary rebellion," as the democracy movement is now officially labeled, a senior Government official gave new figures for civilian casualties in the June 4 crackdown that are somewhat closer to Western estimates than previous Chinese accounts have been.
"We have a right to claim we are somewhat closer to their readers than some of those newspapers," he said.
In this sense, the later grammarian-philosophers are somewhat closer to the spirit of Kātyāyana and Patañjali.
Democrats are somewhat closer to the truth with their particular list of villains: money in politics, Wall Street and the rich.
Bilateria are somewhat closer in some genetic studies, but those might be false positives from contamination by material from the host.
