Collocations withgap
These are words often used in combination withgap.
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achievement gap
Bridging the literacy achievement gap, grades 4-12.
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budget gap
The fare and associated policies were to cost £70 million, which together with the budget gap added up to £117 million, or a 6·1p rate.
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capability gap
That means that the big capability gap in helicopters has at last been closed.
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communication gap
Pidgin is therefore, as it were, mostly used horizontally and rarely vertically, except to bridge a communication gap between literates and illiterates.
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considerable gap
Certainly, there is a very considerable gap in age between them.
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cultural gap
The discourse on women's education underlines the cultural gap between the college-educated husbands and their often illiterate wives.
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enormous gap
There is an enormous gap.
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ever-widening gap
Is there not an ever-widening gap between the precept and the practice?
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explanatory gap
By contrast, their sensorimotor account, precisely because it rejects the idea that the brain constructs visual experiences, steps right over this explanatory gap.
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glaring gap
Perhaps the most glaring gap is conversation.
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growing gap
There is a growing gap between needs and resources.
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huge gap
Unfortunately, in our generalization there remains a huge gap between the two bounds on the exponent.
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income gap
This is because of the decrease in occupational income gap within each sector.
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output gap
These larger changes in inflation and output gap induce the central bank to move its interest rate closer to the natural rate.
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perceived gap
A perceived gap in scholarship can, however, act as a spur to filling it.
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significant gap
This causes a significant gap between theory and practice.
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substantial gap
This represents a substantial gap between current and optimal treatment for anxiety disorders.
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unbridgeable gap
There is a yawning gap, an unbridgeable gap.
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vast gap
There is still this vast gap of £37,000,000 which has to be made up.
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wealth gap
This has the important policy implication that equivalent rates of technological progress will not close the wealth gap between two countries with identical parameters but different initial conditions.
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widening gap
There has also been a widening gap in the economic circumstances of older men and women.
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yawning gap
When is there a yawning gap and when is there not a yawning gap?
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