Breadth and depth
I would like to thank all the drs. (names of doctors appear here) who have been instrumental in helping to broaden the breadth and depth of our Voice and Swallowing Center.
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Hi Newguest It's an idiom that means 'the whole range of', 'the great extent of', 'all the detail of' ... - When it came to crime in Los Angeles, he knew the very breadth and depth of it. In your sentence, there's a slight logical problem, because you can only broaden the breadth of something, not the depth.
- Hi Newguest It's an idiom that means 'the whole range of', 'the great extent of', 'all the detail of' ...
- - When it came to crime in Los Angeles, he knew the very breadth and depth of it.
- In your sentence, there's a slight logical problem, because you can only broaden the breadth of something, not the depth.
- But that's a minor point - the sentence pays a good compliment to the doctors: they have enriched the service provided at the centre in many ways Dave
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Hi Newguest
It's an idiom that means 'the whole range of', 'the great extent of', 'all the detail of' ...
- When it came to crime in Los Angeles, he knew the very breadth and depth of it.
In your sentence, there's a slight logical problem, because you can only broaden the breadth of something, not the depth. But that's a minor point - the sentence pays a good compliment to t
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