narrow focus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnarrowandfocus
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narrow
adjective
uk/ˈnær.əʊ/us/ˈner.oʊ/
having a small distance from one side to the other, especially in comparison with ...
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focus
noun
uk/ˈfəʊ.kəs/us/ˈfoʊ.kəs/
the main or central point of something, especially of attention ...
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(Definition ofnarrowandfocusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnarrow focus
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This relativelynarrowfocusreflects the infant nature of disability history as an academic field and can be excused.
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But we are also engaging with a critique of a toonarrowfocuson what constitutes evidence that has been developed within primary care.
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If we start from a concern for stability, the reason for thisnarrowfocusis understandable enough.
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However, even if one accepts thenarrowfocusof the exercise, its results are mixed.
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Its radical potential is stymied, however, by an overlynarrowfocuson women's equal participation in public life.
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In the latter case, the child would use non-finalnarrowfocus, on blue.
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Anarrowfocuson the right answer to comprehension questions (product) does little to help students understand and control the processes leading to comprehension.
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The relativelynarrowfocusof this volume in terms of time and context is therefore understandable.
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We examined all the first person pronominal subjects used by the children to verify the extent to which they signaled wide ornarrowfocus.
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Subsequent scrambling causes the object to appear on the right periphery of the surface string, where it bearsnarrowfocus.
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The quantifier is focal both innarrowfocusand in sentence focus.
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Phrase-final stress is the norm when all of the verb's complements are definite and none is innarrowfocus.
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Nurses described their practice in terms that clearly reflected anarrowfocuson physiological or emotional concerns.
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Their example has downstep among the first three accents, which does not carry over to the final accent innarrowfocus.
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Thus, most of the unrelated utterances were classified as either initiations or as havingnarrowfocus.
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In the present study, as in most of those described below, the investigation concentrates onnarrowfocus, in the context of doing correction.
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The book'snarrowfocuson paradigmatic reform process permits it to examine the issue from a number of perspectives based on actual reform experience.
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Clearly, one of the biggest achievements of the book is that thisnarrowfocusis shown to be inappropriately reductionist.
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