Sentence examples for took narrow from inspiring English sources

LOS ANGELES— "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" took narrow leads in the Oscar race on Tuesday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences scattered its honors among an unusually wide field of contenders.

Simple low pricing can work if retailers take narrow profit margins, analysts say.

This camera takes narrow roll film (16-mm or 9.5-mm) in special cartridges or film disks.

A gentle zapping appeared to free people from taking narrow approaches to cognitive tasks, by stimulating some regions of the brain and dampening down the activity in others.

England takes narrow lead Ian Bell hit a patient century to help England pile up 440 for eight and take a small first innings lead against Bangladesh on the third day of the second test on Monday, Reuters reported from Dhaka.

Furthermore, since (hat {sigma }^{2}(l)) is estimated on each subcarrier, it can take narrow band interference into consideration.

(70) is ambiguous between one where 'a book by Chomsky' takes wide scope over 'every man who reads' and one where it takes narrow scope.

There is a reading of this discourse on which both sentences in it are true even if there are no witches, so that 'a witch' in the first sentence must take narrow scope with respect to 'Hob thinks'.

South Africa took a narrow first-innings lead.

In the AAT decision deputy president Stephanie Forgie took a narrow approach to defining personal information.

He took a narrow road that ran west, and was discovered twenty miles away as he crawled into a farmyard.