Sentence examples for proved wider from inspiring English sources

Poverty rates may register higher in other counties in the region, and racial disparities have proved wider, but Hale County has long been the Black Belt's front porch.

Vincent Yan, finance director of TCL, which is going through the same experience with the French, has admitted that the cultural gap proved wider than expected.

The resulting variation proved wide.

Predictions of poverty-stricken southern Europeans pitching up in Dover proved wide of the mark.

Perhaps to his amazement, official longevity forecasts have proved wide off the mark.

But the suggestion that voters would respond by punishing all the major parties indiscriminately proved wide of the mark.

Hopes that the rapid spread of the internet in China would lead to an increase of open democratic debate also appear to have proved wide of the mark.

Share prices are close to a record high, and fears that companies would find it difficult and expensive to borrow have proved wide of the mark.

But the dire predictions made in the late 1990's that Britain would have hundreds of thousands of cases of mad cow disease proved wide of the mark.

But the internal predictions that both would fall as a purge of the Old Etonians surrounding Cameron proved wide of the mark.

He had never hinted at any great desire to return, and speculation linking him with the Wigan job when Stuart Raper was sacked midway through last season proved wide of the mark.