Sentence examples for has widened by from inspiring English sources

And, since the late nineteen-eighties, that price gap has widened by almost forty per cent.

For men in poor areas the gap has widened by 2%, and for women the figure is 11%.

Studies* suggest that the longevity gap between rich and poor has widened by about a year in Britain since the early 1980s.

Studies conducted by Stanford and the University of Michigan show that the achievement gap between rich and poor students has widened by as much as fifty per cent since 1980.

A study by Martha Bailey, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, showed that the difference in college-graduation rates between the rich and poor has widened by more than 50 percent since the 1990s.

Edward Said (1935-2003) by Jacqueline Rose In the six years since he died, the loss of his voice, the gap in the political language of the world, has widened by the day.

Within a few days, the beach had widened by many feet and was edged by soft, fine-grain sand.

The Finance Ministry in Athens reported last month that the budget deficit there had widened by almost a third in the first six months of this year — blowing its targets — as a deep recession exacerbated by budget cuts dampens government revenue.

Figures earlier this week from the Pension Protection Fund revealed that the total deficit at nearly 6,000 of the UK's biggest company pension schemes had widened by more than £24bn in a month to reach a new high of £408bn.

Without the introduction of new tax credits for low income working families and the extra help for those with children, the IFS said the gap between rich and poor would have widened by twice as much since 1997.

And although India recorded about 108 boys for every 100 girls in 2001, when the last census was taken, experts say the gap is sure to have widened by now.