Both Spain and France suffered a gender gap.

西班牙人和法国人在约会上存在性别差异。

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The tax “wedge” (the gap between what an employer pays and the employee receives) is as much as three times bigger in France than in Ireland.

而税收“楔子”（即公司付给员工的和员工获得的收入之差），法国却是爱尔兰的三倍之多。

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He said the gap was narrowing, at least with France, based just on last year's figures, while officials were awaiting figures for 2005r.

他说，与去年的数据为基础，这种差距正在缩小，至少是与法国差距减少了。官方在等待2005年的数据。

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But perhaps most important - and worrying - is that the gap between what France would pay to borrow and what Germany pays to borrow widened to a record.

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While this development may not directly help solar and wind firms across Southern Europe, it will likely give ammunition to local companies willing to fill that energy gap and help France reach EU-backed sustainability goals of 20 percent by 2020.

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The 12 gas balloons took off from Gap-Tallard in France almost 24 hours ago.

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