By 2005, the latest figures available, the gap had widened considerably to about 36 million.
But the gap between rich and poor had widened too far for many New Zealanders.
Ken Judge, professor of public health and health policy at Glasgow University, said that in general terms health was getting better for everyone but that the "relative gap had widened".
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On Tuesday, however, the RBI pointed out that the disparity between wholesale and consumer prices had widened due to high food inflation, which has a higher weight in the consumer index.
Hungarian media quoted Mr Illes as saying that a 25-metre-long crack in the weakened wall of the reservoir near Ajka had widened slightly by Sunday morning and that the wall of the damaged reservoir now looked beyond repair.
And dealers were cited by TradeTheNews.com as saying that the Ted spead, which measures the difference between three-month futures contracts for U.S. Treasuries and three-month contracts for Eurodollars, had widened to 313 basis points, from 11 basis points on Wednesday.
In particular, I mentioned that the absolute valuation of emerging markets versus its own history looked cheap and the discount on forward earnings valuations had widened out between the developed world and the emerging world, and that both of those provided a really powerful valuation argument.
Ms Sheeran said Egypt had just widened its food rationing system after two decades and Pakistan had reintroduced ration cards after many years.
Within a few years, the pack-horse trail had been widened into a proper road, stretching 368 miles from Valdez to Fairbanks, and the Richardson Highway was born.
Mr Alexander said that the party's claim was based on figures from the Office of National Statistics and showed that the percentage of earning paid by the richest and poorest had actually widened in recent years.
By 2005, "All Songs Considered" had added Mr. Hilton and widened its interests from the buttons to any tune that caught the fancies of its co-hosts.
By January 2009, the gap widened, even though China had lowered rates to 5.5 percent, because U.S. rates had been slashed to near zero.
At the turn of the year the police unexpectedly widened their investigation to consider whether there had been an attempted cover-up.
And in May this year, judge Lady Dorrian widened the scope to include prisoners in Peterhead who had to use a porta-potty and stand in line to slop out into a public sluice.
As well as increasing the capital banks hold to act as a buffer against future losses from 2% to 7%, Professor Cecchetti said Basel III had made the definition of what constitutes as capital stricter and widened the remit of what counts as banking activity.
On Wednesday, the security forces widened their search, saying there were signs the group had moved elsewhere.
Whereas in the autumn, the conservatives had edged only four percentage points ahead of the Socialists, the gap has since widened to about eight points.
In the 1940s, Mussolini had the windows in the centre of corridor (the section that lies over the Ponte Vecchio) widened to impress his guest, Adolf Hitler.
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