(adv.) With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.
(adv.) With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.
(adv.) Sparingly; parsimoniously.
Example Sentences:
(1) This procedure, using mixed ligand chelate systems, may well be one which is limited to conditions more narrowly similar to those reported by Schubert and Derr (1978).
(2) This confirms that the PLL cells arrested at an advanced stage of differentiation progressed narrowly to more differentiated cells.
(3) Before the debate, most of our focus group expected David Cameron to win narrowly “because he’s best at debates”.
(4) The department of corrections stressed that the two reviews were the initial reports into the execution and were narrowly cast to look specifically at whether the requirements of the state’s death penalty protocol had been complied with.
(5) George Bush, who won Ohio narrowly last time, has been there almost 20 times in the past four years and Vice-President Cheney is on his way this week.
(6) However, marketing has to be understood correctly as a philosophy providing a means of approaching the establishing, maintaining and enhancing patient or customer relationships and not as a narrowly defined set of tools.
(7) Ajax responded with Kolbeinn Sigthorsson shooting narrowly wide and Serero, who had provided Ajax's most potent threat, driving over with 12 minutes left.
(8) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(9) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
(10) When a woman's work was taken into consideration, it was frequently viewed narrowly as being either present or absent.
(11) The treatment of patients with Wilms' tumour was narrowly coordinated by the program consisting of the surgical extirpation of the tumour, postoperative irradiation of the tumorous area at degrees II, III, IV and V and intensive adjuvant chemiotherapy.
(12) Under control conditions neural activity was narrowly confined to a vertical strip of cortex.
(13) The NBA players dramatically underestimated the speed and skill of their opponents, and are narrowly defeated by the North Koreans in an exhilarating match.
(14) The British historian Simon Schama narrowly escaped death this year when the helicopter he was on caught fire and crash-landed.
(15) For a long time I saw little real merit in English films, which seemed to me too narrowly middle-class in their tastes and subject matter.
(16) Growth is still too weak and its benefits too narrowly focused to make a real difference to those who have been hit hard by the crisis and who are being left behind,” said the OECD’s secretary general, Ángel Gurría.
(17) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
(18) Both broadly and narrowly tuned units were encountered in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus.
(19) The company has lurched from one crisis to the next over the past two years, including industrial action this spring by the chorus, with a strike only narrowly averted .
(20) In contrast, choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity was limited to matching subpopulations of amacrine (A14) and displaced amacrine (dA14) cells, ramifying narrowly at 20% and 49% depth levels within the IPL.
Slightly
Definition:
(adv.) In a slight manner.
(adv.) Slightingly; negligently.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slight varus angle of 2.1 degrees became apparent.
(2) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(5) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(6) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(7) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
(8) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
(9) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(10) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(11) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(12) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(13) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(14) The binding to DNA-cellulose of heat-activated [3H]RU486-receptor complexes was slightly decreased (37%) when compared with that of the agonist [3H]R5020-receptor complexes (47%).
(15) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(16) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(17) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
(18) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(19) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
(20) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.