Sentence examples for measures the gap from inspiring English sources

The trade deficit, which measures the gap between imports and exports, fell to $26 billion in February, from a revised $36 billion in January.

One answer to that argument is that although progress is obvious by many measures, the gap between those states the formula covers and those it doesn't still remains.

The third column measures the gap between bond yields on debt of average maturity for each country and the OECD's forecasts for growth in 2010 and 2011.

A popular gauge of credit market fear is the TED spread, which measures the gap between the interest rates that banks charge one another for short-term loans and yields on low-risk, short-term Treasuries.

The system measures the gap and changes its shape without outside processing, a feat that is quite exciting.

TE is technical efficiency, and it measures the gap between one enterprise's actual output and the maximum potential output under fixed input.

Nell uses her fingers to locate the air stream, then measures the gaps so that I can fit a draught excluder.

It seemed that someone had measured the gap between each blob.

The metaphors here, located securely in the past, measure the gap between one's "distorting" reflection and one's self.

Probably the most common way to think about global inequality is to measure the gap between the richest and poorest countries in real income per capita.

Mr. Freeman and his two analysts also measure the gap between cash flow and earnings -- the bigger it is, the better the earnings' sustainability, or quality.