narrow something down

Examples of narrowed

narrowed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Using the 11 mm figure, tests were conducted to see if the window for targeted control could be narrowed.
The ascending aorta was bulbous, but narrowed at the transverse arch and at the site of repair of the aortic coarctation.
Options narrowed for arsenal workers as privately run factories shut down and the masses of unemployed grew.
This positivist approach sticks to facts that cannot be contested as such, but whose causality is deliberately narrowed to a balance of power.
Zoospores narrowed down toward the forward end and had two flagella.
But those discrepancies have widened, rather than narrowed, during the post-war years.
Here, finally, is another way in which the distinction between speaking and revealing may be narrowed.
The results presented here show that the difference between men and women's psychological distress has narrowed over time.
In the last year, the design effort has narrowed its focus to three capsule designs.
This new development significantly narrowed the age differential between the leadership of these movements and the rank and file.
Choices, therefore, were narrowed by the cost of services, their availability, speed of funding and the demand for hospital beds.
Both narrowed over two decades with the higher rates in women and those in manual occupations falling, to become nearer males and non-manual occupations.
With this in mind, we narrowed our analyses to look only at those threeyear-old stories that had the strongest narrative content.
Research and policy in development studies has customarily focused on material aspects of wellbeing, and this has increasingly narrowed to 'poverty reduction'.
Wild-type embryos exhibited onset of neural tube closure and had an elongated narrowed body axis.
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