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The introductory courses are meant to add to breadth rather than depth of understanding.breadth = the range of variety
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a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject
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He went from one end of the village to the other and walked all its breadth. (source)breadth = the distance between two sides
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'Then canoes slipped through palely tinted yellow branches,' said Neville, 'and Bernard, advancing in his casual way against breadths of green, against houses of very ancient foundation, tumbled in a heap on the ground beside me.† (source)
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The young prince Gautama 8akyamuni set forth secretly from his father's palace on the princely steed Kanthaka, passed miraculously through the guarded gate, rode through the night attended by the torches of four times sixty thousand divinities, lightly hurdled a majestic river eleven hundred and twenty-eight cubits wide, and then with a single sword-stroke sheared his own royal locks—whereupon the remaining hair, two finger-breadths in length, curled to the right and lay close to his head.† (source)
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It is repeated, of course, by the breadths, but not otherwise.† (source)
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Her slender figure contrasted vividly with the breadth of the flag: It was her sister, Wenxue.† (source)
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Be it parenthesized here that since the mizzentopmen having not to handle such breadths of heavy canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast and fore-mast, a young man if of the right stuff not only seems best adapted to duty there, but in fact is generally selected for the captaincy of that top, and the company under him are light hands and often but striplings.† (source)
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That word, nymph, paced out the length and breadth of our futures.† (source)
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Meg, who went shopping in the afternoon and got a 'sweet blue muslin', had discovered, after she had cut the breadths off, that it wouldn't wash, which mishap made her slightly cross.† (source)
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When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth.† (source)
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What breadths of experience Dorothea seemed to have passed over since she first looked at this miniature!† (source)
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We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court at Camelot.† (source)
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Only a few hair-breadths make the difference between this face and faces I have seen many times before I knew you; yet what a difference—the difference between everything and nothing at all.† (source)
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When he bent over to lift the mattress from the bedsprings, it crossed its arms, held its breadth, and refused to budge.† (source)
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The red curtains and the white blinds blew in and out, flapping against the edge of the window, and the light which entered by flaps and breadths unequally had in it some brown tinge, and some abandonment as it blew through the blowing curtains in gusts.† (source)
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