This is one of the grandest neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, its wide streets lined with Dutch Colonial and Greek Revival townhouses.

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Likewise, the streets begin wide and expertly paved, then deteriorate, becoming narrow and uneven.

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As the chauffeur navigated the wide sedan down the narrow streets, I pulled down one of the veneered picnic tables and set up my mobile office.

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He used his considerable local power to build wide, tree-lined streets, a fancy new city auditorium and a magnificent, colorfully lit Prismatic Electric Fountain in the city's Ferril Lake.

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But there are about 60 houses between 12 and 13 feet wide, the logical result of a grid of streets laid out in 1811 with standard lots that were 25 feet wide and could be divided.

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But as the report makes clear, the gap between policy decided by senior officers and practice by junior officers on the streets is all too wide.

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Most nights during the holidays, the streets surrounding the Clot house were cluttered with wide-eyed pilgrims.

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Pharmacies can be found on most high streets, and the chain ParaShop has a great, and wide, selection of skincare brands and has branches throughout Paris.

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