Example sentences of "close together [conj] " in BNC.

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1 They are easiest to design where all the basins , baths , sinks and WCs in a house are close together and/or directly above one another so that pipe runs to the stack can be kept short .
2 However , the galaxies would also have had some small sideways velocities , and this might have made it possible for there to have been an earlier contracting phase of the universe , in which the galaxies might have come very close together but somehow managed to avoid hitting each other .
3 The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else :
4 It was always chilly at the school because the building was made of stone , rather like a castle , and was perched on the top-most peak of a mountain , surrounded by pine trees which grew so close together that it was very damp and gloomy .
5 For a long moment after the door had closed , Craig and Hari remained motionless , so close together that she could feel his breath against her cheek .
6 Also there are many binaries in which the components are so close together that no telescope will separate them , and they betray their true nature only by means of the spectroscope .
7 This is because the two components are so close together that they almost touch , and presumably gravitational strains mean that each is distorted into the shape of an egg .
8 It is yellowish , with a G-type spectrum , and is actually a close binary , though the components are so close together that no ordinary telescope will separate them .
9 It is actually a binary , but the two components are so close together that they can not be separated with ordinary telescopes .
10 There are , in the east Midlands , three towns lying fairly close together that illustrate well the physical consequences of this situation — Nottingham , Leicester and Stamford .
11 The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same .
12 Metallic hydrogen is expected to be produced at very high pressures because the molecules of molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) will be forced so close together that each of the two hydrogen atoms in the H 2 molecule is attracted to atoms in neighbouring molecules as much as to its partner .
13 Rather than by using the fist , the greatest volume is attained more easily and also more beautifully by placing the notes so close together that the ear hears no space between them .
14 The huge drops were so close together that they reflected the light , and the rain billowed and rippled like a silver-white curtain .
15 From here he could see the crowded harbour quarter , the rooftops so close together that they welded in the heat haze into one whole .
16 The lines are so close together that two of them can be seen crossing the planet Jupiter at any one time .
17 Devlin 's hand swung up , he fired three rounds so close together that they might almost have been one .
18 Taking the last first , there are three villages which are so close together that with any allowance for coalescence , even the one kilometre which I believe was taken in the original look at this problem by the County Council , there would be no possibility of fitting in a settlement er of the size proposed .
19 Two points on the top face of B are close together if the parts of their symbolic descriptions near the central mark are the same .
20 One way to regain verbal and physical communication is to show warmth by touching more often , sitting close together when watching television , and taking the trouble to look nice , not just when you are going out , but to please each other when you are at home together .
21 You did n't have the baffling and separation then ; everybody would get as close together as they could .
22 Without slumping forwards , take your arms behind you , holding them up as high and as close together as possible .
23 There will be certain positions in which such sheets of spheres will lie on each other as close together as possible .
24 It is best to make these shelves as close together as possible — say , around 10″ , and depending on the depth of shelf and what 's stored on it .
25 Any archaeological sites not destroyed in this process are likely to be at least as severely damaged by the roots of the trees , which are usually set as close together as is economically viable .
26 I was told to stand up straight and , as usual , one of the guards pushed my legs as close together as possible .
27 At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart .
28 ( 2 ) Even if we restrict our attention to those trajectories in our strange invariant set , we can see that almost all pairs of trajectories started at points close together on the top face of the box B will not remain close together as we follow them around .
29 We 've got those as close together as they can .
30 The members of workgroups may be close together or widely dispersed
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