Sentence examples for the gap shrunk from inspiring English sources

The average income of the richest 10% of the population is nearly ten times that of the poorest, but the gap shrunk between 2009 and 2011 to slightly below the OECD average.

In math, the gap shrank 20 percentage points.

The gap shrank 4.7percenttoto 1.69 trillion yen $15.7 billionn) from a year earlier, the finance ministry said.

The gap shrank in the July-September period after contracting to $107.6 billion in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said.

At a later vote on the social-security budget in July, however, the gap shrank to just 18.

The gap shrank most impressively in the South, for workers in all age groups, suggesting that educational improvements and migration were not primarily responsible.

The gap shrank in the early 1990's, when the recession took an especially high toll in New Jersey, and then widened again with the economic expansion in the second half of the decade.

Across the entire firm the gap is 15.1% (below the national average of 19.4%), however when you compare like for like, so those doing the same job, the gap shrinks to just 2.5%.

More investment will bring prices down further; and, as the gap shrinks, so the costs of switching from dirty energy to the clean sort will fall.Yet business's new enthusiasm for clean energy is a fragile green shoot in a dark landscape.

Each month the gap shrinks between a new digital service emerging in the U.S. and it being copied in other markets.

Under the influence of an external magnetic field, Coulomb blockade resonances fluctuate around an average energy and the gap shrinks as a function of magnetic field.