It would save time, take him nearer the truth.

I hope we may be nearer the truth this time.

This is not the fact, but it is much nearer the truth.

Again, in my own household, the following, though also a stereotype, is nearer the truth.

Trying to read a book would have been nearer the truth.

Say cut, or slashed and it would be nearer the truth.

He would have to prom nearer the truth, yet not disclose it.

Hanson, to fit his own ends, hit nearer the truth than he knew.

And the speaker got nearer the truth than he knew.

Make that very small indeed and you are nearer the truth.