Sentence examples for widening almost from inspiring English sources

Inequality may be more pronounced in the UK than elsewhere, but that gap between rich and poor has been widening almost everywhere.

Not surprisingly, thanks to continual advances in digital technology (such as the introduction of Internet-enabled smartphones a few years ago), the separation between digital natives and digital immigrants is widening almost by the day, resulting not so much in a generation gap as a generation chasm.

The irregular lot at 224 West 18th Street also offered a challenge: 36 feet in the front, widening to almost 100 feet at the rear.

At length what seemed oppressively solipsistic widens out, almost imperceptibly, into a book that is also about politics, war and the place of women in modern Japanese society.

And, since the late nineteen-eighties, that price gap has widened by almost forty per cent.

However, losses in the global brands division widened by almost 9% year on year to £7.4m.

TRADE, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUDGETS America's visible-trade deficit widened to almost $35 billion in January; the 12-month total ballooned to $358.5 billion.

And despite the rand's weakness, South Africa has seen a slump in exports and its trade deficit widened to almost 3 billion rand ($468) in August.

And where the best corporate bonds once yielded less than a percentage point above Treasuries, new-issue spreads have now widened to almost three percentage points.

Its body has been stretched by more than six inches, widened by almost an inch and its height raised an inch.

Their funding gap had widened from almost nothing in 2000 to some £550 billion by the end of 2006, more than that of banks in other big European countries (see chart).