1.   A growing proportion of companies now expect to hire workers from abroad to fill the gaps.

2.   A non-statutory body with gifts from concerned members of the public can fill such gaps.

3.   Approximate synonyms, or else circumlocutions, are chosen to fill the gap.

4.   Corporate social scientists now candidly admit that with the disintegration of traditional social structures, companies have filled the gap.

5.   Finally, again as predicted, children coin new terms to fill gaps in their vocabularies.

6.   Foreign agribusinesses, using sophisticated Internet Marketing, quickly fill gaps in U.S. supplies of everything from asparagus to garlic.

7.   Home-delivered medical services filled the gap between care by overworked family members and impossibly expensive care in hospitals.

8.   I spent most of the summer filling the gaps in my education.

9.   Nothing could fill the gap in her life left by his passing.

10.   Sales of gold from central banks were needed to fill the gap, Gold Fields said.