An interest-rate gap is opening between currencies like the dollar and the yen on the one hand, where monetary policy is likely to remain ultra-loose, and higher-yielding ones like the euro on the other.

ECONOMIST: Currencies

York prevented leaders Hartlepool from opening up an eight-point gap at the top of the Third Division as the teams fought out a goalless draw at Victoria Park.

BBC: Hartlepool 0-0 York

The term "breach" is often associated with a security violation or a betrayal of trust -- both appropriate here -- but it's also an opening, a gap.

CNN: Review: Cooper brilliant in OK 'Breach'

Those worries about a skills gap opening up are now commonplace amongst many in Britain's hi-tech industries.

BBC: Why can't the UK produce world-beating tech companies?

They were continuing to move into the workforce in ever-increasing numbers, more opportunities were opening up for them and the pay gap with men was getting smaller.

ECONOMIST: Closing the gap

The game was only four minutes old when Isaac Boss managed to spring through a gap between Deiniol Jones and Bradley Davies, and feed the supporting Jennings for the opening try which man-of-the-match Nacewa converted.

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