gaping hole

collocation in English

meaningsofgapingandhole

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gaping
adjective
uk
/ˈɡeɪ.pɪŋ/us
/ˈɡeɪ.pɪŋ/
A gaping hole or other opening is ...
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hole
noun[C]
uk
/həʊl/us
/hoʊl/
an empty space in an object, usually with an opening to the object's surface, or an opening that goes completely through ...
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(Definition ofgapingandholefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This may be hard to contest but the real problem here is thegapingholein the data on community health services.
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We have therefore increased payments: we could not close the gap completely, but we have halved it, to leave agapingholeof 8%.
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Very often, what is found is not agapingholebut a dip in the ground similar to a shallow crater.
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To enact this and no more would be to leave agapingholein the intended control as regards functional land.
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This is agapingholeand any accountant with the slightest wit will already be planning ways in which to charge through this loophole.
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That is done for the sensible reason that he does not want agapingholewhere the window should be in the middle of winter.
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But to pour millions down the drain of an evergapingholeis no incentive for the trustees to establish any sensible policy.
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Whatever the price gyrations that may take place between now and then, this is going to leave agapingholein our balance of payments.
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But their memory will linger on in the form of agapingholein the unitary development plan.
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I would not be confident about prescribing schemes, but my key concern is that there may be agapinghole.
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Indeed, it was meant to fill thegapingholein their promises of extra spending on education.
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Therefore, we face agapingholein what was promised.
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It is anothergapingholein the availability of housing accommodation on a permanent basis for ordinary people.
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There is agapingholein all that argument and philosophical, financial, actuarial and economic detail.
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First, his policies have agapingholeof £500 million in them, which will be withdrawn from universities.
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I would have thought that that leaves a hugegapinghole.
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Without that, there is agapingholeat the heart of his pensions proposals.
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Indeed, the new bureaucracy could be very dangerous in blurring what is agapinghole.
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This is agapingholewhich destroys all the progress made by this new legislation.
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To that extent, there is agapingholein any economic embargo that this country or its allies seek to impose.
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