Even Jordan, which has long hosted Palestinians as well as refugees from Syria, Sudan and Iraq, has lately closed its borders, leaving tens of thousands of Syrians to set up makeshift encampments in the desert.
Some townspeople wanted to head for the mountains immediately, for the war had lately been coming closer to the hamlet; only the week before, a plane had dropped two bombs near El Mozote, damaging its one-room school, and though no one had been hurt, the people had been terrified.
Snap, which has been chasing its own tail lately, closed at $24.48 on its IPO day in March 2017; on Wednesday it closed at a princely $9.87.
We have lately been close to two deaths of young people.
Ari Up, a founding member of the post-punk band the Slits, has lately moved closer to reggae.
It is also true that Iran and Syria, and Hamas and Hizbullah, have lately drawn closer in an anti-American front across the region.
Where once the worlds of real fur and fake were miles apart – sumptuous neutral mink and fox on one hand, garish static nylon fakes on the other – they have lately shifted closer together.
Renting a decent place here has always been exorbitant but has lately become closer to impossible for all but the very rich; as in London, the financial crash has forced people who'd otherwise buy into the rental market, causing vacancy rates to drop to an all-time low.
Comedy has lately moved closer to the center of what we talk about when we talk about television — the anti-hero boom of the first decade and change of the 21st century is now giving way to, or at least making room in the Public Conversation for, the likes of Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, Aziz Ansari and so on and so forth.
But one thing seems certain: while the Giants once envisioned Dayne as a workhorse, he has lately seen something closer to spot duty.
Similar studies have shown that the percentage of working mothers with newborns rose to a peak of 59 percent in 1998 and then declined, but that it has lately been rising close to peak levels.
