Sentence examples for lay closer from inspiring English sources

But a more immediate threat lay closer at hand: what he was doing was illegal under British law.

Like for the upper quartile, the majority lay closer together meaning between 0.5 and 1 mm.

Radiographic analyses found that the Contour array lay closer to the modiolus, was more deeply inserted and spanned a larger fractional length of the basilar membrane than the straight banded-electrode array.

In 1892, the discovery of Amalthea, whose orbit lay closer to Jupiter than those of the Galilean moons, pushed Europa to the third position.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

Through the years as a quarryman, he had stumbled across the occasional pocket of natural gas in some of the rocks that lay closer to the surface of his land, but he never thought much about it.

Occasionally a calf lay close by.

Flags with Arabic inscriptions lay close by, French media reported.

During the Carboniferous period (359 299 Ma, Scotlandd lay close to the equator.

Nevertheless, the YRI lay closest to the HGDP-CEPH Yoruba in a cluster of African populations.

Many of these initial states lay close to the native cluster after PCA was applied.