Sentence examples for decisive gaps from inspiring English sources

The Tour was won after Froome opened decisive gaps in the Ardeche time trial on the second Thursday.

Although some will take heart from the fact that Froome was unable to open decisive gaps uphill at Luchon and Arcalís, this does not mean that he or Team Sky are weaker than in previous years, merely that the race has not yet been tested to the point of rupture.

At the equivalent stage in his two successful Tours in 2013 and 2015, as the race left the Pyrenees Froome had opened a decisive gap and had a team-mate in close support – Geraint Thomas last year, Richie Porte in 2013.

Yates suffered a problem with his gears which cost him valuable energy earlier in the stage and he slipped to fourth overall behind Froome, Bardet and Nairo Quintana, who attacked on the final climb but was unable to open a decisive gap on the race leader.

Cummings and his runner-up, Rohan Dennis, acknowledged that the key to the Briton's victory this week was the second stage through the Lake District, where Cummings paced his effort over the key climb of the Struggle to ensure that he had enough left in the tank at the end to open the decisive gap on the Australian and the eventual third-placed Tom Dumoulin of Holland.

United struggled to make the breakthrough that would see them open up a potentially decisive gap over their rivals from across the city.

United looked to have opened up a decisive gap over City during the Easter period - but this was a listless, almost complacent performance that on occasions reduced manager Sir Alex Ferguson to visible anger in his technical area.

The Baltic team led the game from the beginning, first managing short distances to finally open the decisive gap late in the third quarter.

Vos told BBC Sport: "I knew it could be the decisive break and it was great to see the gap growing from one, to two and then to three minutes.

However, there is a decisive research gap regarding the question of how (potential) investors react to corporate stakeholder management activities (Hillenbrand et al. 2013).

Was the gender gap decisive in Obama's victory?