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Expression: 'An attention to detail'



 
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Expression: 'An attention to detail' #1 (permalink) Tue Oct 24, 2006 14:30 pm   Expression: 'An attention to detail'
 

Hi

Could you please tell me what the phrase an attention to detail means? Could you use it in a sentence or two for me?

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Expression: 'An attention to detail' #2 (permalink) Tue Oct 24, 2006 15:40 pm   Expression: 'An attention to detail'
 

Ahem!

Master Tom, what about you giving it a try? Wink

"Attention to detail" basically means that a great deal of attention was paid to details when something was done. Laughing The word 'attention' is normally uncountable, so this would be one of those cases where you'd be "taking a few liberties," as it were.

Renoir painted those flowers with such an attention to detail that you practically smell the roses and jasmin. Wink

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