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The phrase "across the board between" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is typically used to refer to something that applies universally or in all cases, but the addition of "between" creates confusion as it implies a comparison or relationship that is not clear.
Example: "The changes in policy will affect all departments across the board."
Alternatives: "across the board" or "universally applicable".
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So you have to have extremely clean provenance and background, and this goes across the board between paintings and ceramics".
Indeed, the National Center for Education Statistics' data on graduation rates at four-year colleges shows that those rates have increased across the board between 1996 and 2007.
It is fitting that the Mexicans would curse the Americans at one moment and thank them at another — a reflection of the complicated love-hate that underpins relations across the board between the neighbors.
"I spoke of the long-standing friendship that exists between our two peoples, one that can and should form the foundation of improved relations across the board between our two countries.
In fact, statistics show that they are widely used across the board between all age ranges, and they are the more commonly used to device to access the internet.
She answered that the review process is "very comprehensive" and that "it's important not to let whatever that decision is on one pipeline color the potential for co-operation across the board between the United States and Canada on energy production and climate change".
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Eighty-seven percent of students live below the poverty line, and countless studies have shown the emergence of an across-the-board gap between rich kids and poor kids.
But it was absolutely jolted by sequestration – the mandatory across-the-board cuts negotiated between President Obama and Congress to settle a budget battle.
But in France, there is no across-the-board formal connection between psychiatric and somatic treatment and the somatic care of patients undergoing psychiatric treatment remains heterogeneous [ 21].
Even worse, the sequester's across-the-board spending cuts make no distinction between effective and essential programmes and programmes that represent special interests or have outlived their original purpose.
Because the group failed to come to an agreement, under the legislation automatic cuts were triggered across-the-board – known as sequestration – split evenly between security and nonsecurity programs.
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