Sentence examples for widened a few from inspiring English sources

The east side of Madison was widened a few feet in the 19th century, although thousands walk along daily without registering the change.

It was widened a few years ago for millions of dollars.

City officials have noticed and are considering a plan to widen a few sidewalks, install street furniture and turn several blocks into one-way streets.

The study also recommends widening a few sidewalks, giving pedestrians longer green lights in the evening and limiting truck delivery hours.

When GE Medical Systems designed its Lightspeed diagnostic scanner, for example, Six Sigma studies showed that widening a few tungsten wires could increase the machine's accuracy -- something that the design team had thought would require a costly tube redesign.

That project consultants say widening a few lanes here and adding a few stoplights there should take care of the rest is almost laughable.

In the early 2000s, they were widened by a few feet.

The escarpment was so steep that the median widened from a few feet to one and a half miles as the northbound and southbound lanes negotiated independent passage.

The Panama Canal is scheduled to be widened in a few years, and the Port Authority will, by then, have spent the better portion of a $3.8 billion capital investment plan to attract its massive freighters, which will have nearly double the capacity of current cargo ships.

That's why Dauphinais' eyes widened when, a few weeks after the delivery of that embarrassing box, a young Hoosier, William Godfrey, walked into his office.

That's why Dauphinais' eyes widened when, a few weeks after the delivery of that embarrassing box, William Godfrey walked into his office.