Sentence examples for shortfall widened from inspiring English sources

After a slide in the stockmarket halved the value of the banks' shareholdings, the capital shortfall widened again.

The shortfall widened to 1.14 billion Australian dollars ($656 million) from a revised 957 million Australian dollars in October, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said.

The shortfall widened to 2.72 billion Australian dollars ($2.5 billion) from a revised 1.94 billion in December, the Bureau of Statistics said.

This was the first surplus for this quarter in a decade.South Korea's current-account deficit widened to $1.2 billion in March, its largest shortfall since before the economy had to be bailed out by the IMF six years ago.

Spain's current-account deficit widened to almost 10% of GDP by last year; Greece's shortfall was 12% of its GDP (see chart 2).Italy has not followed exactly the same path, but shares some of these ills: a high real exchange rate, a current-account deficit and a weak economy.

Although its current-account deficit widened to $1.8 billion in 1996, it was way below 1994's $29 billion shortfall.In this section Dress code What is a child?

In a research note to clients, Douglas Lane, beverage analyst at Merrill Lynch, says he's surprised by the size of the earnings per share shortfall, and widened his first-quarter estimates to a loss of 20 cents per share from an 8-cent loss, and cut his fiscal 2001 estimate to a profit of 45 cents per share from 58 cents.

Now, Mr. Toledo's government is being fiercely criticized for proposing a package of tax increases and spending cuts intended to keep a fiscal shortfall from widening and to raise wages for teachers.

And then there is the real pensions shortfall – the widening gap between quoted experts who speak for the rest of us while many of the rest of us don't even know the terms of the debate.

The shortfall with China widened to $6.3 billion from $5.7 billion.

But the agreement does not address the underlying problems that have left the state fund with a rapidly widening shortfall.