Sentence examples for but rather close to from inspiring English sources

Many mutations of small effects do not seem to be completely recessive, but rather close to codominance, especially if their effects are very small [ 122- 130].

On the other hand, when Zw Zp < 0 and aggregation occurs, the density profiles are not peaked in proximity of the bottom wall but rather close to the center of the box size along the z-direction.

The relatively close spacing of the curves' minimum and maximum suggests that the replication origin and termination sites are not situated opposite to one another on the circular-mapping chromosome but rather close to each other, so that replication proceeds asymmetrically, with the clockwise replication covering as much as approximately 80% of the genome.

The total eclipse is calculated to last only four minutes and 43 seconds, the shortest in a century, said Nasa astronomer Mitzi Adams, because the moon will not pass through the centre of the Earth's shadow but rather closer to its edge.

D (disordered: 1360 cm-1) and G (graphite: 1600 cm-1) Raman band features of graphitic carbonaceous materials in these AMMs were not similar to those for type 3 but were rather close to those for type 2 and 1 carbonaceous chondrites, although some data showed a degree of deviation.

In our case ζ = 0.74±12.9%, that is, we are in the under-damped, oscillating regime, but still rather close to the critical point, which is why we observe no clear resonance peak in the power spectrum.

One, the relative blood flow estimate for region 1 is not close to 0 after the stroke, but is rather close to 0.2 and two, the relative blood flow measures across the boundary (solid and dashed blue lines in Figure 6b) are different.

It was a joke but, in context, was rather close to the bone.

That phrase — "the occasional price of a noble but risky profession" — struck rather close to home.

Indeed, factors related to this increase remain an open question that our study is unable to resolve but our figure is rather close to that described by authors such as Martin [ 5] and Dombrosvky in the USA [ 7].

In the end, I have a rich sauce with a flavour rather close to the farmyard, but not uneatable.