I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a narrow belt
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The tree grows in a narrow belt around the western Mediterranean.
a narrow defeat (= by a small amount )
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The goalkeeper was blamed for the team’s narrow defeat.
a narrow entrance
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I could see part of the yard through the narrow entrance.
a narrow gap
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There’s only a narrow gap between the two candidates in the polls.
a narrow margin (= a very small one )
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The proposal passed, but only by a narrow margin.
a narrow tunnel
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She ran down the narrow tunnel leading to the exit.
a narrow victory (= a win by a small amount )
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A general election on Oct. 5 produced a narrow victory for the People’s Progressive Party.
a narrow/limited range
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They only had a very limited range of products available.
a river narrows (= it becomes narrower )
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The river narrows at this point.
a road narrows/widens
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After a couple of miles, the road narrows.
a slim/narrow majority (= a very small majority )
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The proposal was passed by a slim majority.
a small/narrow circle
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Ken was the centre of a small circle of artists and writers.
bridge/close/narrow the gap (= reduce the amount or importance of a difference )
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The book aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
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The policies are designed to close the gap between rich and poor.
have a narrow escape (= to only just avoid danger or difficulties )
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The team had a narrow escape from relegation last season.
limited/narrow
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The scope of the research was quite limited.
narrow boat
narrow gauge
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a narrow gauge railway
narrow your eyes (= partly close them, especially to show that you do not trust someone )
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She narrowed her eyes at him suspiciously.
narrow (= including only a few ideas )
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Some psychiatrists still use a very narrow definition of mental illness.
narrow (= not broad enough )
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Many teachers complained that the new curriculum was too narrow.
narrow
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We walked along a narrow path beside a stream.
narrow
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A narrow passage led to a small room at the back of the house.
narrow
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He has a thin face and narrow eyes.
narrow (= not wide )
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The margins are very narrow, making the page look cluttered.
narrow
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Nathan stood in the doorway, filling the narrow space.
narrow
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an old city with quaint narrow streets
narrow
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The valley becomes narrower at this point.
narrow/limit the scope of sth
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He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography.
narrow/slim
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Her dark hair spilled over her narrow shoulders.
sb’s eyes narrow (= become half closed, especially because someone does not trust another person )
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Her dark eyes narrowed for a moment.
the gap narrows
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Polls show the gap between the two candidates has narrowed.
thin/narrow
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Tears rolled down her thin face.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fairly
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There are fairly narrow limits to how much the Institute's lobbying is ever likely to achieve.
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Flexibility Most people, despite protestations to the contrary, stick to a fairly narrow band of behaviours.
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The building and decoration of this temple can be dated within fairly narrow limits.
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Until the early 1960s these beliefs were not seriously tested and differences of theory appear as shades of a fairly narrow spectrum.
much
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Trusts take a much narrower view on long-term needs than regional health authorities, and nursing education is not even an obligation.
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Law school was much narrower than I thought it would be.
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Others also emphasised the study skills dimension of the library plan, but meant something much narrower by it.
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Texas women chose Dole over Clinton by a much narrower margin, 46 percent to 44 percent.
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He took it slowly in four-wheel drive, the road much narrower here, the outer edge of it crumbling away.
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The Dow, the most closely followed index, though a much narrower one, started the decade at 2, 753.
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This one was much narrower and would not have allowed Blythe to walk alongside the woman even if he had wanted to.
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It is primarily a travel and entertainment card, so its retail outlets base is much narrower than that of its competitors.
rather
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I felt the boots were rather narrow and inflexible.
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Her short wavy black hair was combed neatly back from a rather narrow sloping forehead with prominent brow ridges.
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Budgets in the public sector should serve a number of purposes rather than the single and rather narrow concept of compliance.
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The attic stairs were rather narrow .
relatively
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Moreover, the range of earnings within agriculture is relatively narrow .
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In contrast, governments that put steering and rowing within the same organization limit themselves to relatively narrow strategies.
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The final variant on provision for cyclists occurs in areas where streets are relatively narrow and pass predominantly through housing districts.
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Hence, many projects benefit a relatively narrow group of people and impose costs on all taxpayers.
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We are best served by being very good in a relatively narrow field.
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Effective training is best delivered within a relatively narrow time frame.
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Far from being randomly distributed, nearly all seismic activity is concentrated in relatively narrow zones.
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So far, debate has been left to a relatively narrow group of specialists.
so
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Many of the buildings in the old town were six storeys high and the lanes so narrow that all but pedestrians were banned.
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It was so narrow that the Friendship could take off only on a southwest course, going down its length.
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Did the choice of alternatives have to be so narrow , so dramatic?
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Am I just so narrow that I believe the world revolves around Kip?
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Indeed some observers thought this a major reason why the Conservatives won by so narrow a margin in October.
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There were few paved roads, and most of the roads were so narrow only one car could pass.
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He himself had a long horror of being in a space so narrow that he could not turn round.
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The stairs were so narrow , that with more students coming up, his had to file down one at a time.
too
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However it is important to avoid the A roads which are too narrow and busy to be much fun.
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The tube is too narrow even for the nucleus, which only just squeezes through.
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Do they extend the definition of murder too far, or are they too narrow .
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Bunions tend to run in families, but the tendency is aggravated by shoes that are too narrow in the toe.
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It's a narrow place, this valley, Auntie Dilys. Too narrow for me.
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But the conventional view may be too narrow .
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The bed was too narrow and Oliver muttered in his sleep and ground his teeth and thrashed about with his fists.
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One walked ahead with the lantern, since the stairs were too narrow to give passage to two at once.
very
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The young leaves are very narrow , ribbon-like, linear and pointed at the tip.
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He is a decent, intelligent human being who happens to see the world through a very narrow prism.
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However, the danger is that the double blow of recession and Royal Mail reorganisation could make that first rung very narrow .
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My problem is I think it has a very narrow focus.
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This is very narrow , more akin to a country lane, with few passing places, but is relatively traffic free.
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We work on a very narrow margin.
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Description: Very narrow , linear, opposite, curling, deep green leaves with 30-50 fine teeth.
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Plants cultivated in half-shade have very narrow leaves and resemble some species of Aponogeton.
■ NOUN
alley
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Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy, decaying stonework and the painted wood.
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When she reached Soho, a policeman directed her to Manette Street; a narrow alley between two tall buildings.
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Then I reached a narrow alley full of large snowballs.
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He threads his way through narrow alleys where the sun never penetrates.
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I'd overshot the narrow alley before it registered properly.
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She followed Will along the mean cobbled streets until he paused alongside a narrow alley .
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The drums lead us through the warren of narrow alleys to a courtyard whose entrance is blocked by a knot of people.
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It's all narrow alleys and overhangs.
band
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There are times when prejudice only contributes to conflict in the narrow band of outlook and experience where that prejudice exists.
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So, fixed exchange rates or narrow bands simply do not allow countries the flexibility to solve their internal economic troubles.
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To perform well it has to be tightly targeted to cope with quite a narrow band of frequencies.
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A monochromator is a device for selecting a narrow band of wavelengths from a continuous spectrum.
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It shifted, became a narrow band of darkness, then widened again.
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It is fun to create a pretty effect by sowing them in a narrow band , weaving between the brassicas like ribbon.
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We will put the pound into the narrow band of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
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In northern Scandinavia there is only a narrow band a few kilometres wide along the northeastern coast of Kola Peninsula.
bed
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Standing he drew her towards him and they moved together the few paces to the narrow bed .
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Q: I would like your advice on perennials to plant in a narrow bed across the back of our yard.
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When they reached the stream they found it to be a rushing torrent that swept in mad haste along a narrow bed .
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Fred and Win had a little room with two narrow beds .
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Lying on his uncomfortably narrow bed , he thought back to the events which had brought about his present state.
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Its ceiling sloped and it held a narrow bed with a small table beside it; no space for anything else.
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She leapt from the narrow bed .
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There was a-small desk beside a narrow bed and the young lieutenant, Benson, sat at it.
boat
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Don't get me wrong - I love narrow boat life.
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Above: The elaborately decorated cabin of a narrow boat .
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She hadn't known, when she agreed to Caro's suggestion, that her friend lived on a narrow boat .
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Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats .
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Even so, Robbie breathed more easily once she had put the length of the narrow boat between them.
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The wind howled dolefully, making the narrow boat sway and rock at her moorings.
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Fen's words about narrow boat life not being all glamour returned to mock her.
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The thought of a day, let alone months, spent on board a narrow boat would fill her with horror.
confines
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Rock fall and trampling in the narrow confines of a cave are two major factors.
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We are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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In that same instant, the deafening crash of gunfire filled the narrow confines of the alley.
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The higher centers are dormant when we live our lives exclusively within the narrow confines of the personality.
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The new leadership proved more diffuse - beyond the narrow confines of the traditional élite and professional classes - and younger.
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The narrow confines of the inner solar system seem claustrophobic compared to the asteroid belt.
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We were jammed together, shoulder-to-shoulder, in the narrow confines .
definition
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This is the narrowest definition of money.
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Mr Alger, using perhaps a narrower definition of technology, put the peak exposure at 55 % of assets.
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In terms of its narrow definition in the Maastricht Treaty, convergence has been surprisingly successful.
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This was an older narrow definition , in fact the only one until a few years ago.
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Secretary of the Amateur Rowing Association from 1893 to 1901, he tried unsuccessfully to widen its narrow definition of an amateur.
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First, it is possible that a too narrow definition of comparative costs would be used.
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Even using the narrow definition it is clear that desk top publishing is a complex and technical area!
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The second difficulty is the narrow definition of the problem as a safety one.
escape
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They have no time for self-congratulation on their narrow escape .
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He is a veteran of numerous firefights and narrow escapes who has shown notable serenity throughout the siege.
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His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once.
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But he has also seen the loss of life and the narrow escapes .
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape .
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The driver launches forward for a narrow escape .
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The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes , precautions, hidden devices and daring.
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It had been a narrow escape and I was impressed.
focus
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The latter involved a narrow focus on the formal institutions of industrial relations.
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My problem is I think it has a very narrow focus .
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At this point in the analysis the more narrow focus on production merges with a second broader area of interest.
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Holding him back, say political observers and the other candidates, is the narrow focus of his appeal.
gap
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Darkness was falling rapidly as Campeanu eased his way past the narrow gap .
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Rosie O'Dell peered through the narrow gap , her eyes half-shut against the glare of daylight.
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Then he eased himself through the narrow gap feet first, and dropped lightly to the floor.
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The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton.
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It jerked against the safety-chain, leaving a narrow gap through which he scrambled to safety.
gauge
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It is the latest shot in the battle to re-construct the 23-mile narrow gauge line.
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He also built a narrow gauge railway which ran round the whole estate.
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At the Port Lilla was placed back on narrow gauge track for the journey up to the Quarry.
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Then the narrow gauge became the standard Voice over A rail system based on a horse's behind.
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At first glance there appears to be a preponderance of narrow gauge or what I would call miniature railways.
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The car rattled along, crossing the myriad narrow gauge loco tracks that ran between the factories lining the route.
lane
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I walk across the field to the gate and out into a narrow lane .
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Peace in the squares and the narrow lanes , where hibiscus and bougainvillea climbed over sleepy walls.
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They were now walking along a narrow lane that was no more than a rutted cart-track.
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This pretty little village of narrow lanes and attractive cottages is in fact a Royal Village.
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They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers' Gully, which led them on to a wild rocky headland.
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He felt good as he negotiated the narrow lanes between Purton and Sharpness.
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I prayed she hadn't taken one of the narrow lanes that turned off at irregular intervals.
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The car turned into a narrow lane .
margin
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Isn't this my own handwriting running sideways down the narrow margin ?
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Kennedy won the election by a narrow margin .
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Surprise! the seventh firm won the tender by a narrow margin .
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While both developer subsidies passed, the narrow margin clearly indicates the voters of this valley are beginning to wise up.
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Their relatively late arrival in the quarter coupled with their costs and the narrow margins on the surprise Model 20 impacted earnings.
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We work on a very narrow margin .
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Local law societies were also unreceptive to the idea, although by the narrow margin of 29 against to 25 in favour.
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So Weinke took the Heisman by a narrow margin and Heupel is anything but a loser.
passage
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At the rear of the shop were two rooms, set alongside a narrow passage leading to a back door.
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Crisscrossing Chinatown, these narrow passages , some as old as the city itself, serve as front yard and back yard.
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But now a narrow passage leading to the single barred window had been constructed down the middle of the room.
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He followed her into the narrow passage .
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In the narrow passage that led through to the garden, they came upon Rafiq.
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This outline is fairly abstract, consisting of oval shapes connected by narrow passages .
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She was in a narrow passage that crookedly connected two busy streets.
path
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They moved away from the house complex down one of the narrower paths .
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Keep him on the narrow path .
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The jeep reached the River Orne and we turned off the road on to a narrow path just wide enough for the jeep.
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He walks along a narrow path to a ridge where wild boar, hyenas and the golden mole rat occasionally roam.
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But his good loyalist credentials could not save him when he departed from the narrow path .
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I need to clear a narrow path through the rushes and also through the lilies that border the margins.
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Morrison's aerial photographs show narrow paths going straight across miles of rugged countryside.
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He forged up the narrow path , slippery with a myriad pine needles, as though his feet were winged.
range
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Specialised compartmentalization ensured that management was expert in the narrow range of financial services offered.
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Only a narrow range of speeds was viable.
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But the board provides only a narrow range of sensitivity on the variables under its own control.
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Education can be a route to a narrow range of professions, but for most the prospects are poor.
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The Nikkei 225 average rose 158.49 or 1.2 per cent to 13,506.23 after trading in a narrow range between 13,441.52 and 13,573.55.
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Several writers have pointed to the narrow range of typifications of deviant women.
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The national dailies peaked later, in 1957, but fluctuated within a comparatively narrow range .
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This resulted in a narrow range of areas being tested.
road
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We stopped on one side of the narrow road .
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Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road .
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I see narrow roads contoured into the sides of steep slopes.
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He rode along the narrow road towards Emminster and his parents' house.
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Soon, as the large Mercedes climbed narrow roads , the magic of the landscape erased all else from Katherine's mind.
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Signs posted along the narrow road that leads through sloping pastures to the cliff-framed beach warn motorists to watch out for birds.
scope
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The section, however, has a narrow scope applying only to directors, officers, and large shareholders.
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Still, Clark downplayed the significance of the review, noting its narrow scope .
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Its weakness lies in its very narrow scope .
sense
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In the narrow sense , it failed to achieve its specific aims.
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In the narrow sense , the battle here is over zoning.
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There are important parts of these processes to which this narrow sense is relevant.
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While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true.
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Lord Reid stated that jurisdiction in a narrow sense meant only that the tribunal be entitled to enter upon the inquiry.
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In a quite narrow sense they are right.
stair
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He crossed the landing and mounted the narrow stairs to the attics.
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The propylon from the theater leads into a dark narrow stair which turns down towards the light and into the main court.
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In the end I gave in and reluctantly mounted the narrow stairs .
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The passages and narrow stairs made the effort very difficult, necessitating a change in the arrangements.
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Then she turned and flew on winged feet up the narrow stair to take refuge in her garret room.
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All the same, it might be interesting ... As she went up the narrow stairs , Jennifer's heart was beating.
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After a time I found a group of people all sitting on some narrow stairs .
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He brushed down his hair and straightened his clothing and made his way down the narrow stairs towards the street.
street
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He led Lucien on to a narrow street lined by tiny, dark shops.
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But today, crews wielding jackhammers are frantically repairing the narrow streets .
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With its narrow streets and lack of parking places, this city is best explored on foot.
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That means narrow streets , interior patios and walled enclosures.
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The town itself has a pedestrian centre with quaint narrow streets leading down to the lake front.
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And it was charming, small and cozy looking, sunburnt pink stucco with a second-floor balcony overlooking the narrow street .
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Canal tours, blue-and-white china, narrow streets - if it were not also a university town it would be merely beautiful.
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But there was only the one narrow street and through it drifted only George Cummings' black ambulance.
strip
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Guard a narrow strip of paper or linen pasted to a single leaf to allow sewing into a section for binding.
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A few panting children defended a narrow strip of shade beside the school.
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Thinly pare the rind from 1 orange and cut into narrow strips .
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They are long, narrow strips of land surrounded on at least three sides by canals.
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Now there was just a narrow strip of greasy jetty between Rincewind's heels and the river.
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By using the push buttons you can run the lace patterns in narrow strips between stocking stitch.
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Across the Estuary, two miles away, the sun was lighting up a narrow strip of sand on the Yorkshire coast.
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The narrow strip of tarmac, not enclosed by fences, winds free in a continuous search for easy passage.
valley
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In narrow valleys surface boulders dominate the landscape.
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He was in a narrow valley , woodland rising up on the opposite side.
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Ahead lay a steep, narrow valley and a village, diminutive at this distance, its buildings clustered round a harbour.
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Our first day's walk took us along stony tracks, through forests of birch and pine and into a narrow valley .
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To the north narrow valleys rise steeply through the craggy passes to peaks and mountain lakes.
victory
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Crowds gathered in central Lima last Sunday night to cheer his narrow victory over former president Alan Garcia.
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On election night, however, the team squeaked out a narrow victory .
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When the 1976 election returns were in, Jimmy Carter was found to have won a narrow victory over Gerald Ford.
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Was Buzz Calkins' narrow victory over Tony Stewart enough to keep them interested?
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John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory .
view
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In general, the classical perspective contained a peculiarly narrow view of what it actually is that controls human behaviour.
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These animals can see objects and judge distances very well, but they have a narrow view .
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Unfortunately, Bellesiles takes a narrow view of the subject, asking primarily about the extent of ownership and familiarity with firearms.
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And the problem is compounded because managers Jan find both the books and the consultants to reinforce their narrow view .
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The narrow view is that of our individual human mind.
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In recent years, a few courts have articulated a narrower view of academic freedom.
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She mocks the snobbish, hypocritical and materialistic views of many people and their narrow views.
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However, most mathematicians would see this as a very narrow view of their subject.
window
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A large, empty room with high, narrow windows through which the bright day filtered slowly on to various shades of brown.
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The tall, narrow windows each had a saint in stained glass.
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There is one narrow window , sticking shut from the inside with paint and nails.
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There was a single narrow window opening on a shaded garden and when the door was closed it was difficult to see.
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Three narrow windows were locked on the inside, shades drawn.
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Thick golden bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows .
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Kids in particular love to charge up its flights of stairs and peek out its narrow windows .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the straight and narrow
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She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow.
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This will help you, both physically and psychologically, to get back on to the straight and narrow.
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You may be able to keep us to the straight and narrow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a narrow black tie
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a narrow examination of events
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A steep, narrow path led down through the woods to the beach.
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Columns that are too narrow are unattractive and difficult to read.
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Nordic skis are longer, narrower and lighter than Alpine skis.
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She climbed through a narrow gap in the fence.
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the narrow streets of Italian cities
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The road was too narrow for me to overtake the car in front.
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Their interpretation of Christianity is narrow and limiting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter.
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He stood now flush against the side of the bluff on a narrow ledge, his hands over his face.
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I see narrow roads contoured into the sides of steep slopes.
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Plants cultivated in half-shade have very narrow leaves and resemble some species of Aponogeton.
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The Dow, the most closely followed index, though a much narrower one, started the decade at 2, 753.
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The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.
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There was a narrow stone path, Alexei now saw, around the base of the promontory beyond the buttress.
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We have a long narrow area and the motorway has cut it in half.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
greatly
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But down the years the gap between Mississippi and the rest of the country has narrowed greatly .
slightly
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Third, the gap between the gross earnings of manual and non-manual workers has also narrowed slightly during recent years.
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His eyes narrowed slightly but he started the second verse in the minor key she was using, following her lead.
■ NOUN
choice
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Now you've narrowed the choice down to more manageable proportions, it's time for the specialist retailer and test fitting.
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This will narrow your choice to a smaller hit list of suitable shoes.
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Rain narrowed her choice to three pieces.
definition
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Having these skills will not narrow the definition of who my daughter is.
field
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It doesn't narrow the field very much, does it?
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The Lords of the Rings will narrow the field to four, then pick one next year.
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It would narrow the field a bit, wouldn't it?
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We have already narrowed the field significantly by looking at cassette formats.
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That narrows the field down a bit, if it's correct.
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Tags have all these functions and more, and only the context can narrow the field in any specific case.
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An experienced headhunter could narrow the field down to short-list stage much more quickly and cost-effectively, Tagg argued.
focus
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This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations.
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There is a narrowing of concern and focus .
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We now need to narrow our focus and concentrate upon the concept of power itself.
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Both books may help you narrow your focus .
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In recent months, Musharraf has narrowed the focus of his sweeping reform agenda as it encountered resistance from various interest groups.
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His self-oriented behavior had been neutralized by the work-related commitment of all his colleagues to narrow the strategic focus of the company.
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The cast's work is deceptively effortless, slowly accentuating the suspension and narrowing the focus of culpability.
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Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks?
gap
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By the final round the gap had narrowed to three votes, with Baburin polling 412 and Khasbulatov 409.
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This leads one to ask how the gap can be narrowed .
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But when a particular sub-group of workers is taken - assembly line workers - the gap is narrowed .
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Trade gap narrows despite cut in invisible earnings.
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A route she had been forced to follow, never quite closing the gap , though it narrowed all the time.
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When it won its next large majority in 1966, the circulation gap had narrowed to 13 points.
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If imported drinks like wine still enjoy much more benign treatment, at least the gap has been somewhat narrowed .
margin
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Companies survived even though their markets and profit margins were narrowing .
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Motorola also said its profit margin narrowed to 5. 9 percent in the quarter from 8 percent a year ago.
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By early 1986 margins had narrowed .
range
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Middle-class urban speakers, as we have seen, tend to narrow the extreme range described above.
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Future research can be expected to narrow this range and could possibly lead to a value outside the stated range.
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We then realized that our costs were too high so we narrowed the range and cut the costs.
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I now attempt to narrow and adjust this range of uncertainty.
road
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Take this turn and after a couple of miles the road narrows incredibly through the hedges and stone houses of the village.
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There were three cars be-- hind me, but the road was narrowing from three lanes to two.
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She took the left, and the road narrowed .
scope
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In what follows, we shall narrow the scope of the term to something more adapted to the present purpose.
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Last year the court narrowed the scope of affirmative action programs that give minorities preference in such matters as employment and education.
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Most of the conceptual distinctions which have been used to narrow the scope of such protection have been applied to them.
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To avoid receiving a huge list, the user should use good word descriptors to narrow the scope of the search.
search
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By lunchtime he had narrowed his search down to three out of the dozens of girls missing in the London area.
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But HotBot lets you narrow your search using simple pull-down menus and on-screen buttons.
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In this way, Barlow initially narrowed her search to 23 craters, and ultimately to two.
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If so, narrow your search to books about it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Contractors will narrow the road to two lanes.
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Levin and his editors then narrow down the list to 50 people.
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The gap between the two candidates has narrowed, and they're starting to panic.
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William's eyes narrowed as he looked toward the west.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But you can narrow the odds of a nasty accident happening in your home by being more safety-conscious.
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In the past month, the unions have narrowed most of their election-year efforts to 28 House races.
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Issues which are not in dispute should be eliminated and the scope of the disagreement narrowed.
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Lawyers said courts in recent years have generally narrowed the copyright protections for software, but the rulings are not uniform.
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Parr's thin, keen face had narrowed, strangely.
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We now need to narrow our focus and concentrate upon the concept of power itself.