In fact, when one examines the low level breakdown of how each sector and sub-sector has performed over the crisis, a broad pattern presents itself.

This was essentially an outline plan and delineated only a broad pattern of development.

The experts saw broad patterns in survival outcomes and believe that the information could help them to pinpoint treatments.

Although the technique did not identify any genetic variations that had an effect on intelligence by themselves, they found that broad patterns of genetic variation correlated closely with it.

The strongest pieces do not stop there but either try to interpret broad patterns or look attentively at a smaller but highly suggestive picture.