Sentence examples for has rapidly widened from inspiring English sources

The investigation, which began with accusations that the four Rio Tinto workers had conspired to steal state secrets, has rapidly widened, according to accounts on government Web sites and in Chinese news media.

In recent years, poutine has rapidly widened its range — although someone from Quebec who's tasting a poutine in Alberta is likely to appear disdainful, like a travelling salesman from Buffalo sniffing suspiciously at what a Southern California sports bar lists on its menu as Buffalo Chicken Wings.

In the March budget Mr Brown forecast that corporation tax revenues would rise 12% this year, but in the first five months they fell 3%, while spending has grown rapidly, widening the budget deficit.

In recent years, however, what was once a small fracture has rapidly moved through the frozen structure, widening to more than 1,000 feet.

Since the 1970's, however, income gaps have been rapidly widening.

Motivation: The genomic era in molecular biology has brought on a rapidly widening gap between the amount of sequence data and first-hand experimental characterization of proteins.

The sudden collapse of the Iraqi army has raised international concerns about a rapidly widening regional crisis that has implications for Iraq's powerful neighbours, Iran and Turkey.

Use rates have rapidly increased.

Years on the circuit eating pasties at motorway services or having too many postshow beers rapidly widens the waistline.

But the agreement does not address the underlying problems that have left the state fund with a rapidly widening shortfall.

The endocarp consists of several strata of sclerenchymatous cells which become enlarged, lose their content and rapidly widen the walls; we then have a stratum of parenchymatic cells and, finally, we see the pluristratified internal epidermis (Fig.  2D).