narrow something down

Examples of narrowing

narrowing

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

Narrowing this gap in our understanding of the policy process is important, for dramatic events are not politically neutral.
Coverage has remained stable but this obscures a narrowing gender gap in coverage.
The narrowing margins in these products in turn reduced the cost of hedging barrier options.
For a given standard reduction derivation its lifted narrowing derivation is not necessarily that in which only 'needed' narrowable terms are contracted.
For narrowing, we need unification and hence we use the following construction to lift a rule into a binding context.
You learn a suite of macroeconomic models that sharpen your mind by narrowing it.
In order to compute all solutions by narrowing, we have to apply all rules at all non-variable subterms in parallel.
They wonder whether narrowing the focus excludes the very people experiencing the risk.
Also, the gender gap is narrowing with coverage extending to 82 % of employed males and 79 % of employed females.
This enabled a specific targeting of issues, narrowing down subject matter to include those themes that required further scrutiny and analysis.
The data available suffer from many limitations, narrowing the feasible statistical approaches.
Many processes are selective, and a taxonomy of a broad range of kinds of selection may be preferable to narrowing the applicability of the term.
The minimum radius obtained from the rotational solution is larger than obtained from the irrotational solution, even further narrowing the supersonic region of the vortex.
Its basic functions guide its constraints in narrowing the ranges of their bids.
The operational principle proposed for this situation is narrowing.
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