Narrowness

At first, it was unclear what work the agency had performed to allow trains to resume full-speed travel, but an MBTA official told the News Service that crews spent several recent nights widening sections of the rails to address the narrowness problems.

NCA CEO Sally Barnes said ACT officials working on the project had flagged that the narrowness of the road veering left into State Circle from Commonwealth Avenue could pose engineering and cost challenges.

Yet increasingly I find it seductive – not as a sneering pejorative but for the way it sums up a kind of progressive narrowness of vision that exists in many quarters, but is particularly notable in my homeland.

Selectmen and police chief Randhi Belain mulled a number of potential solutions, including more signs, weight limits and converting the road to a one-way because of its narrowness.

When Highways England introduced the restrictions earlier this year ahead of the original Brexit deadline of March 31, they triggered a wave of protests and complaints, particularly about the narrowness of the lanes used for the contra-flow.

The reasons: Poor illumination and narrowness of the intersection.

The Wornall Road proposal is especially worrying to this pooch, given its narrowness, and it presently looks like France after the Great War thanks to our ol’ buddies at Infra-Source and the city’s Water Department.

Also, the narrowness of the field meant that Boudica could put forth only as many troops as the Romans could at a given time.

Due to space restrictions imposed by the narrowness of this landform, the Old Town became home to some of the earliest "high rise" residential buildings.

Empedocles noted the limitation and narrowness of human perceptions.

He was as far removed from the narrowness of the specialist who has no ideas or sympathies beyond just one author or corner of science as he was from the shallow dabbler who feverishly attempts to master the details of a half-dozen unrelated pursuits.

The road from Baños to Puyo has long been known for its narrowness, curves and sheer drops (only one lane in some places, on one area, actually cut into the side of a cliff so that the cliff roofs over it).

The sea's narrowness, significant depth, and sharp drop-offs, all combine to form a geography where large deep-water sharks can roam in hundreds of meters of water, yet be within a hundred meters of swimming areas.

The tidal strait changes its direction of flow frequently, and is subject to strong fluctuations in its current, which are accentuated by its narrowness and variety of depths.