"from this close" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe the proximity of two objects or a person and an object. For example, "I could see the details of her dress from this close."
From this close up of course it never is.
From this close perspective, the democratic process involved was something other than pure.
Philosophers who strayed from this close relation were chided by their superiors.
Our approximately 105 faculty, 30 graduate students, 60 residents and clinical fellows, and 75 postdoctoral fellows benefit greatly from this close, collaborative, and vibrant community.
It is impossible to conclude from this documentary whether American policy will succeed, though from this close to the ground the hurdles look insurmountably high.
The students were lined up in their desks, knowing every lockdown drill that American school kids now know, and a mile away, a Riverside police officer had been killed that morning in yet another fusillade, bullets that came from this close: one driver-side window of a car, one passenger-side window of another.
Despite the grayness, the laughter and vivacity that radiated from this close-knit community appealed to Ms. Konttinen.
But then the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the twin towers claimed the lives of at least eight people from this close-knit community and others with Rye roots or family.
High military sources believe that the Vietnamese must be driven from this closest ad vance toward Pnompenh at all costs.
In addition, this method efficiently determines the optimal degree of flatness by using a powerful objective error function derived from this closed-form solution, and allows direct and simple computation of the coefficients of the filter with the desired frequency response.
Many people from this close-knit slum community, who literally live in each other's pockets, were also infected during the measles outbreak that took Hossain.
