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breadth English

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breadth

The breadth of an object is the distance from side to side, to show how wide an object is.

breadth

(= largeness) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views (= width) the extent of something from side to side

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Simple sentences

Divide its length and breadth by ten.
The village lay in a valley about half a mile in breadth.
Lojban is designed to be unambiguous in orthography, phonology, morphology, and grammar. Lojban semantics, however, must support the same breadth of human thought as natural languages.
I'm interested in data related to the Great Wall. What is its length, its breadth and height?

Movie subtitles

For no man in all the breadth of our land more fervently loved humanity than Zola.
I and my brothers, James and John. Throughout the length and breadth of the land, we followed him.
A sense of breadth and strength.
The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits. the breadth of it 50 cubits. and the height of it 30 cubits.
And they pitched their tents in the length and breadth of it. from Bethel to Kadesh and Shur, even unto Egypt.
The length and breadth of this nation, they're gonna know the name Jed Cooper!
We have ridden the length and breadth of the land. in search of knights who will join me in my court at Camelot.
I come within a hair's breadth of sending' him to kingdom come.
Bless all our missionaries throughout the length and breadth of this earth.
And from what I hear, your strongest dog was a hair's breadth away from being bait.
It's the breadth of our responsibilities that makes us important, makes you important.
Such a breadth of knowledge.
THE ENTIRE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE UNCHARTED HYACINTH.
My energy is missing them by a hair's breadth.
Throughout the length and breadth of the land, we followed him.
And by a hair's breadth he brought me to court martial.
The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits the breadth of it 50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits.
And they pitched their tents in the length and breadth of it from Bethel to Kadesh and Shur, even unto Egypt.
I love the breadth, it's the length.
I bring them to within a hair's breadth of being human.
Oh, well, I've taken inventories the length and breadth of this land.
Martin's strength. his breadth.
You don't have the body structure, the right breadth.
Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances of moving accidents by flood and field hair-breadth escapes in the imminent deadly breach of being taken by the insolent foe and sold to slavery.
Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures?
A means to traverse it. To plumb its depths, breadth and beauty.
The fumes of the sweet golden wine seemed to lift us a finger's breadth above the turf and hold us suspended.
His Holiness is sending a papal legate. to search the length and breadth of this land. to find a man worthy enough to wear the biretta.
One dog gets ahead: a swift dog, but too fiery, leading the other. by afingers breadth.
Or was it a cold-blooded attempt at mass murder, that came within a hair's breadth of success?
It has significant advantage in both length and breadth.
And the Earth came within a hair's breadth of being torn apart.
Didn't have a career as such, but the government did recognise the breadth of his readin' by makin' him librarian of the state nervous hospital in Meridian, where he was a distinguished inmate.
Before you die, let me show you the things that I've done, so you will understand the breadth of my transformation!
I'm a hair's breadth. from riddling you with holes, Doctor.
They can concentrate on production in breadth and depth and create. more and more undertakings for their own well being.
Relief and rescue operations are becoming visible, but so too is the sheer breadth of destruction.
Saved by a hair's breadth!
To the extent we are a democracy we're sort of a hair breadth's away from a police state.
That he lives shows the breadth of my magnanimity.

News and current affairs

The goal is not to enlist Japan in any anti-Chinese coalition, but rather to increase the depth and breadth of US-Japanese cooperation.
Moreover, a variable geometry of attendance at meetings might weaken the development of a personal chemistry and the breadth of bargaining that can arise when the same group of leaders meets regularly to discuss a broader range of subjects.
Indeed, the breadth of the opposition to Morsi reflects a major global tendency toward the empowerment of the educated and connected middle classes, whose members tend to be suspicious of political parties and demand more direct political participation.
But the trend towards increasing sophistication and breadth of our financial markets suggests that we can expect to see much further growth in cat bonds.
The ideal of uniting teaching and research promised just such a breadth of organizational vision, one worth updating today.
At home and abroad, it is impossible to miss the breadth and depth of change sweeping the globe, particularly in Asia.
Despite the MDGs' breadth, one issue received the most attention by far over the past decade: global warming.
Shortly after taking office, the administration faced a crucial strategic decision about the scope and breadth of its agenda.
This is to some extent justifiable: The breadth of topics is staggering, ranging from international norms for state behavior in cyberspace to challenges like cybercrime and growing censorship.
Still, language of such breadth could accommodate virtually any action sympathetic to a foreign power, yet Americans are reluctant to invoke their catch-all criminal charge.
But we do need to examine the nature, depth, and breadth of relations with Russia.
The meager professional rewards for breadth, coupled with the inaccuracy and reputational risk associated with forecasting, leads to disengagement for most academics.
Russia's air force lacks the breadth of precision weapons and targeting systems fielded by the West - a reality that produced horrific consequences during the Georgian war in 2008 and the first and second Chechen wars in 1994-1996 and 1999-2009.

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