The phrase "as close as practical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something should be done to the nearest feasible extent without being overly precise.
Example: "The design should be as close as practical to the original specifications to ensure compatibility."
Alternatives: "as near as possible" or "as close as feasible".
But according to a spokesman for the attorney general, the election law also states that printing of absentee ballots should be done "as close as practical" to 40 days before the election, or next Thursday.
Close-proximity priorities generally evolve around issues of convenience, such as, designing administrative space, training space, and diagnostic laboratory space close together; animal housing rooms and cage sanitation as close as practical; bedding storage close to the clean side of the cage sanitation area; and large animal housing and surgery areas as close to one another as practical.
An ordinance requires rings to be replaced at their original location (or "as close as practical").
An excitation filter (D460/50x, Chroma) was placed between the spot and condenser lenses, and an emission interference filter (Chroma D550/50 m) was placed as close as practical to the objective back focal plane.
Good-quality packaging products manufactured from recycled (less expensive) resins, as close as practical to the end customer's operations, will be most competitive and achieve a significant market share.
A medical record review will compare the last weight recorded in pregnancy (taken at the maternity service at 36 weeks onwards and as close as practical to birth) with the woman's booking-in weight (taken at the maternity service when the woman's BMI is calculated).
Each microphone was placed as close as was practical to the head of the bed, ventilator and monitoring system.
The goal of this plan will be to get you back to a job which pays as close as is practical to your pre-injury wage as soon as possible.
The covariate X it was included linearly in the logistic regression to enable an evaluation of the results of the multiple imputation procedure as close as possible to its practical use, in which the threshold 0.014 is unknown.
It provides a virtual environment as close as possible to an on-campus practical laboratory through various tools and facilities such as virtual eRO.
In order to be as close as possible to existing definitions and practical applications, care is taken to be conform to current standards wherever possible in this article.
