Sentence examples for close to a main from inspiring English sources

Major Islamic site and religious center 70 miles north of Baghdad, very close to a main Iraqi chemical research complex and production plant.

Rather, areas of high ditch density close to a main river are likely to be of greater value and should be targeted for enhancement.

But the former beneficiaries, or people who thought they had bought the rights from them, continued to covet an area that is flat, stocked with high-value timber and close to a main road.

EAT Balkan zaniness is the theme of Luka Lu (Ujezd 33; 420-257-212-388; www.lukalu.cz), a Serbian-Croatian establishment so close to a main street in the Lesser Town that the rumble and red flash of the No. 22 tram is a key component of your dining experience.

He has already felled about 75 trees which were close to a main road.

A man has been stabbed to death close to a main road in West Yorkshire.

'Had the bullet penetrated an inch closer to a main artery, we would lose him' a doctor said.

Women generally lived closer to a main road than the other two road types, and had more main roads around their home.

The prevalence of respiratory symptoms among school children attending a school in Colombo situated close to a busy main road was significantly higher than that of children attending a school situated in a rural area (cough - OR = 1.33, 95% CI = 1.12-2.48; presence of phlegm - OR: 1.66, 95% CI = 1.12-2.46; wheezing - OR: 1.29, 95% CI = 0.80- 2.10).

In the construction of new mixed orthogonal arrays, two goals should be kept in mind, first, we want the orthogonal array to be as close to a saturated main-effect plan as possible so that there will be a large number of factors and second, we want the (p_{i}), the number of levels, to be as large as possible so that the design has a high degree of flexibility (see Mandeli [10]).

Rescuers couldn't use power tools because they were close to a broken gas main.