Thanks to the Occupy movement, the rhetoric of describing the nation's widening economic divide as a gap between the "rich and the poor" has been replaced by outrage at the gap between "the rich and the rest of us" or, more precisely, the richest 1percentt and the "99percentt".
When that was updated in 2010, with the addition of Robbie Williams, the "30 years of hurt" line was replaced by "all these years", as the gap between England tournament wins stretched to 44 years.
Inseparable high school chums are often replaced by college buddies who help bridge the gap between youth and adulthood.
Last year, South Africa replaced Brazil as the most unequal society, with the gap between the poorest and richest individuals the highest in the world.
The abasic site is removed by deoxyribose phosphatase, then DNA polymerase β and DNA ligase I or DNA ligase III/XRCCI replaces the nucleotide and closes the gaps between the newly synthesised nucleotide and the strand.
He suggested replacing the camera's aperture gate with laser-cut metal stencils, thus eliminating the gap between the film and the masks.
In the aye-aye, which has replaced the toothcomb by evolving continually growing, rodent-like incisors, the hook-shaped tip of the sublingua fits precisely within the gap between the two lower incisors and keeps the area clean.
But the gap between them is big.
It is the gap between lives.
The gap between racial groups was dramatic.
