1.   By these measures, the economic gap between the wealthier countries and the poorer countries is usually diminished.

2.   The economic gap between the two halves of the country was beginning to narrow.

3.   As a result, the economic gap between rich and poor is likely to widen.

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

5.   By every measure, the economic gap between the two Irelands is growing.

6.   For decades, the economic gap between the two nations has driven millions of Mexicans to work for minimum wages or less in the United States.

7.   He also referred to troubles with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the growing economic gap in parts of the city.

8.   In recent years, though, the economic gap between blacks and whites has narrowed, yet the health gap persists.

9.   Maybe we should have paid more attention to those who noted that the economic gap continues to widen between CEOs and the rest of us.

10.   Nationally, the advisory committee traced the roots of the economic gap facing low-income students to several inter-related causes.