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Please mind the gap between the train and the platform.
Mind the gap.
I'm considering taking a gap year to develop myself and increase my self-confidence.
The gap between what can be imagined and what can be accomplished has never been smaller.
We must work to close the gender pay gap.
The cat went through a gap in the fence.
The gap between rich and poor is getting wider.
Mary's self-conscious about the gap between her front teeth.
Movie subtitles
After having the Geass cast on them, or when it's in effect, there is a noticeable gap in memory.
Vigo closes the gap!
Well that is the son of tuff old Arin Blake, who made his fortune hawling freight through the Cumberland Gap in the 30's.
It'd be an awful gap without her.
If he had been forgotten, it had been as a gap in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming.
Ground command will send the reserve battalion in a flanking movement through this gap.
The bridges span a narrow gap between two mountains.
Now, the gap isn't too wide, so watch it, you navigators.
And anyway, the snake lost his patience. fell into the gap between the guard's collar. and, I suppose, it would be the neck. and..
You've only got a ten-second gap.
What can ever replace the gap left in her life by the death of her dear mother and father?
Would you help me. put a gap between us?
There's a line of trees. There's a gap in them.
The deciding factor was when we learned your country was working along similar lines. We were afraid of a doomsday gap.
Now see here, my dear, there's quite a gap. between what you want and what you're going to get.
And in the gap, Ajaccio.
They think to wed me to that weak-chinned, pasty-nosed, gap-toothed little monster.
But notice this hole, this gap right here.
This gap is one of the most exciting and significant recent discoveries in all science.
Between the finish and printing, there's a 2-minute gap.
Well, maybe not in Memphis, but it was sure hailing hard and plenty up in Chalk Gap tonight.
Somebody tore up two cars last night on the Chalk Gap road.
And now, perhaps, this slogan will also give you strength to bridge the gap between this vignette and tonight's story.
And you've been presented at Buckingham Palace to the king and queen of England with such a gap in your education?
Between two attacks there's a gap.
If he had been forgotten, it had been as a gap in our great feast, and all-thing unbecoming.
Scratch my back, will you? Found somebody this morning up at Rainbow Gap, murdered.
It's a wonderful thing, our being able to bridge the gap between the centuries.
I ought to find something to fill in the gap. while you're working or away on trips. or out holding clients' hands, don't you think?
There's a gap in them.
The deciding factor was when we learned your country was working similarly. and we were afraid of a doomsday gap!
Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!
It's filling up the deepest gap that separates class from class and soul from soul.
There's one tiny little gap in the universe left. Just about to close.
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News and current affairs
A consensus is emerging that the gap between the US economy's growth potential and its actual performance will remain large for some time to come.
There is a considerable gap between offers of advice one cannot refuse and the responsibility to deal with the consequences when that advice proves wrong or extremely difficult to implement.
The growing gap between mortgage debts and house prices will continue to increase the rate of defaults.
The output gap reflects a deficit of more than 12 million jobs - the number of jobs needed to return to the economy's peak 2007 employment level and absorb the 125,000 people who enter the labor force each month.
These measures would provide insurance to the fragile recovery and add nothing to the long-run fiscal gap.
Painful choices about how to close the long-run fiscal gap should be decided now and implemented promptly once the economy has recovered.
That gap is likely to widen as Europe's demographic profile darkens, and if productivity continues to grow more slowly than elsewhere in the industrial economies.
Nor is the employment gap with the US the only problem for Europe.
Demand for low-cost Mexican labor by US employers and the 10-1 wage gap between the two countries pushes 350,000 Mexicans to risk their lives every year for better paid jobs north of the border.
The gap is simply too large between what is needed to restore competitiveness and what citizens can stomach if they remain part of the monetary union.
Over the two last decades, masses of Indians and Chinese have closed the gap (in relative terms) with the rich world.
Thus, even if the absolute income gap between an average American and an average African increases, why worry?
But they cannot fail to notice that the processes they support undercut their own position by rendering the wealth gap more obvious and the fairness of the actual global distribution more questionable.
The gap between the cost of carbon-free and carbon-emitting technology fell, and the taxes designed to mitigate emissions became more effective.
Two problems need to be addressed: the credibility of Greece's fiscal stabilization program, and how to cover the country's medium-term financing gap.
If that trade gap persists, Greece will have to borrow the full amount from foreign lenders every year in the future, even if the post-default budget deficits could be financed by borrowing at home.
Eliminating or reducing this trade gap without depressing economic activity and employment in Greece requires that the country export more and import less.
But, even if that could be achieved, it would close the trade gap only for as long as Greek prices remained competitive.
This depreciation would perhaps be justifiable had Nigeria managed to use easy money to narrow the gap between ordinary Nigerians' standard of living and that of people living in Britain.
Now the gap is widening, and that is likely to continue.
Because the biggest share of the US trade gap is with China, a country vilified as a currency-manipulating cheater, the bilateral trade deficit has become the lightening rod for China bashers.
This gap has narrowed in the past couple of years, but much of the improvement probably reflects little more than the temporary impact of an unusually tough business cycle.
This is where America's multilateral trade deficit enters the equation, for it has long accounted for the bulk of America's balance-of-payments gap.
In some parts of Africa, cotton growers are expanding production, providing proof that if the US and Europe did somehow curtail their own cotton output, Africans could plug the gap.
Other governments and intergovernmental bodies have not filled the gap left by the US.