"narrow the area" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to reduce the size or scope of a particular place or topic. Example: The city council plans to narrow the area for the new park, in order to make it more manageable and cost-effective.
New rules will narrow the area of dispute before the trial starts.
This improved method can narrow the area of the conventional stress polygon, particularly in shales; therefore, constrain the in-situ stress estimate.
The obsessed basement dwellers turned to studying the star patterns and their movements and with that, plus a tweet that Labeouf sent out in a Tennessee diner, the trolls were able to narrow the area even further to a small patch of land between a house and a river.
Finally, high-density markers are needed to narrow the area to a few candidate genes.
A series of 16 recombinants covering the entire congenic region was developed to further narrow the area containing Hcf1.
While working on your graduate degree, you will significantly narrow the area of study you work in.
Each interview can provide another clue in narrowing the area to search for a meteorite, the rock that remains after a meteor falls to the ground.
In January, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved an amendment to its original 2006 designation, which in effect narrowed the area that was landmarked from the entire lot to the building, including a small buffer zone.
New analysis of satellite data has narrowed the area in which the aircraft might have come down from some 600,000 square kilometres to a 60,000 square kilometre strip of ocean, 650km long and 93km wide (see map).
To be cost effective, he says, much depends on first narrowing the area to be surveyed down to a few square miles at most.
The size of the grid candidate area corresponds to 21% of the simulation grid, with four receivers, for both and, while narrows the area to only 7%.
