Breadth in a sentence as a noun

Who has the breadth of skills to manage it all?

They may have been soft on the hardcore science, but they opened up the breadth of my understanding of the world.

But even well-informed tech people have been taken aback by the breadth and sheer gall of the NSA's snooping.

The best clients will not respond well to hearing about you being a hair's breadth from financial disaster, because this does not happen to professionals.

Consistently making excellent choices requires both breadth and depth of knowledge and experience that you simply can't develop in less than a decade.

"My second thought: "Meh, the job interview probably involves writing a breadth-first search algorithm to search for known pirates in the graph of nearby ports.

Who besides pg has had the depth and breadth of quality first-hand experience with such ventures over such a sustained period and in such an explosive context as that of recent years?

Goes to show that it's not just software patents that can be utterly ridiculous in their breadth... Here we seem to have half a dozen examples of the one-click patent applied to thermostats.

I came within a hair's breadth of losing my infant daughter to cancer just over a year ago, and a few things come up in my thoughts:- Not all medical systems are the disaster described here.

Here in the UK, for example, we've seen an obvious reduction in the breadth and rigour of exams for at least a generation, and there is a kind of inverse snobbery about selective schools or, worse, schools that charge fees.

The goal of these summaries is not to convey the full breadth of a startup's eventual ambitions, or even what they're currently doing, but just to help investors watching 65 presentations remember which company is doing what.

So... instead of using a tool that will search virtually every source of information on the internet for you to bring you the most relevant results, you are blogging about how you limit your search breadth to single places that you happen to participate in......yawn

Information cluttering does nothing to alleviate the opposite problem of information breadth: if Anon the intern's problem is he doesn't know how to Google for libraries or how to make efficient use of documentation, an IDE that presents him with a gazillion of possibly related things won't help him.

Breadth definitions

noun

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"

See also: comprehensiveness largeness

noun

the extent of something from side to side

See also: width