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