1.   But a return to a strictly enforced standard becomes more and more difficult as the gap between generations widens.

2.   Sadly, despite recently introduced performance bonus schemes, this gap is still widening.

3.   The gap is widening between the incomes of the rich and the less well-off.

4.   As the tax burden edged up, so did the gap widen between the sum that a pay settlement gave workers and what it cost employers.

5.   Analysts said, however, that they expected the gap to widen considerably in future months as Asian economic trouble squeezed exports and created cheaper imports.

6.   And a perilous economic gap has widened, further isolating a rich coterie of well-connected families from the grinding poverty of the majority.

7.   And indeed, during the Bush years, that gap has in fact widened as New York reduced the size of its government and the Texas state government grew.

8.   And the gap has steadily widened.

9.   And the gap is widening.

10.   And the gap may soon widen.