Sentence examples for points has widened from inspiring English sources

That means a slight difference of 3 percentage points has widened in a year to a chasmlike 29 percentage points.

The extra reward investors require to buy that debt instead of low risk U.S. Treasuries with similar maturities has widened 1.34 points in the past two months to 6.91 percentage points.

This gap has widened from three points in 1997 to 16 points now.

Fear of this happening probably explains why CSFB's High-Yield Telecom index has widened 475 basis points from its best 1997 level, versus a widening of 376 basis points for the high- yield index as a whole.

And when Obama's 12-point lead over McCain was evaporating, Hillary Clinton was moving from a tie in February to a five-point advantage — and now that has widened further.

In the space of three weeks the gap between United and City at the top of the Premier League has widened from five points to 12 and for the Etihad the Champions League is an embarrassing memory.

As a result, the discount at which Berkshire shares trade relative to the stand-alone value of its assets has widened to a point where breaking up can't be ruled out.

The jobless rate, 7.6 percent, is three percentage points higher than six years ago, and income inequality has widened.

Divers have discovered that a crack running around a third of the circumference at the point where the fuselage joins the wings has widened in the past two years.

Longer-term government rates have not risen nearly as much as short-term rates, so the spread over 10-year Treasuries has widened considerably, to 577 basis points.

The gulf between them has widened slightly, from 10.3 percentage points in 2009, to 10.7 in 2010.