This was taken as a positive development — other polls had put the gap at 24 and 37 points — and as certain proof, in a season like the present one, that anything was possible.
However the implementation of government policies and plans in the development of health institutions, human resources, accessibility and availability, resource distribution, rural-urban disparity, the male-female gap has put the health system in a dismal state.
The wide gap between the opposition and the loyalist camp has put the formation of the new government on hold.
Others, such as the Nuffield Trust, have put the funding gap at £6bn a year by the end of the next parliament, in 2020.
The orchestra has put its operating gap this season at $13 million, but it said the gap would be $14.5 million under a more responsible draw on endowment.
The anti-sweatshop movement has put many apparel makers, like the Gap and Kathie Lee Gifford, on the defensive by picketing in front of stores, holding sit-ins at colleges and bombarding companies with letters.
But since both those goals now look remote, it has put forward a stop-gap plan to cut much of the red tape out of the oil-for-food programme, and to plug some of the loopholes in the embargo, while retaining its basic format.
Mr. Obama's economic advisers say that he has been animated by the country's yawning levels of inequality, and the administration has put forward several proposals to address the gap.
As for the closeness of the boys as brothers, there is seven years difference in age and this gap has put them closer as the years go by.
Blackburn boss Steve Kean has put his faith in Goodwillie filling the gap left in his striker ranks - Roque Santa Cruz has returned to Manchester City, Benjani Mwaruwari is out of contract and has rejected a new offer, while Nikola Kalinic is expected to join Ukrainian side Dnipro.
