• Hendry suggested he might make it a similarly tight finish when he won the 13th frame, after several misses, and then showed his class with a break of 116 - his only century of the match - to narrow the gap to 8-6.

    BBC: Peter Ebdon holds aloft the Maplin UK Championship trophy

  • Several have reduced taxes and benefits in an effort to widen the too-narrow gap between what their citizens can earn from work and what they can get from handouts.

    ECONOMIST: Remodelling Scandinavia

  • Halfpenny had a chance just before half-time to narrow the gap but the penalty chance from his own 10-metre line asked too much from even the wing's powerful boot.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 28-21 Toulon

  • David Cameron chaired a meeting of the cabinet in Leeds to show commitment to a project the government believes will help regenerate the UK and narrow the north-south gap.

    BBC: HS2 railway divides Welsh Secretaries past and present

  • Long-term interest rates will come down to narrow the historically wide gap between short-term and long-term rates, says Dessauer, who believes mortgage rates will dip below 5%, keeping the housing boom going.

    FORBES: Armageddon Buys

  • Brown still believes that over the next few years small-cap stocks will continue to outperform their larger peers, but this summer large-caps may narrow the gap.

    FORBES: Summer Rally?

  • The agency in 2008 added new tests designed to narrow the gap with real-world driving by simulating highway speeds up to 80 mph, as well as driving in hot and cold weather.

    WSJ: Why Your Mileage May Not Measure Up

  • England wing Vainikolo went over in the right hand corner during the second half to narrow the gap to 13-12 and the writing seemed to be on the wall for a Gloucester comeback.

    BBC: Dragons 18-12 Gloucester

  • Joynt got former Bradford centre Paul Newlove into a run in a dangerous position and took a return pass to cross at the corner, with Long kicking a superb conversion to narrow the gap to 16-10.

    BBC: Bulls charge Saints

  • These could also help attract foreign capital and narrow the country's current-account gap.

    WSJ: India PM Says Pessimism Over Economy Unwarranted

  • The lower fiscal deficit number, which will be announced soon, will likely provide some cheer to the market as it will indicate the government's resolve to narrow the gap between its revenue and expenditure--it plans to reduce the deficit to 3.0% by March 2017.

    WSJ: India Likely to Post Smaller-Than-Expected Fiscal Gap

  • Those confident in their needle-threading ability can drive to a narrow gap to the right of the bunkers, but the safer play is to pull your ball on to the adjoining sixth fairway.

    BBC: John Daly becomes another victim of the Road Hole

  • Leicester fly-half Twelvetrees kicked a penalty to narrow the gap shortly after Smith was yellow carded, but within two minutes, the visitors also lost Ed Slater to the sin bin for a deliberate knock-on.

    BBC: Premiership: Saracens 26-20 Leicester Tigers

  • That hasn't helped a campaign which promises to narrow the gap between Germany's haves and have-nots.

    NPR: Merkel Risks Election-Year Setback In State Vote

  • To narrow the racial gap in swimming, the L.A.-based Amateur Athletic Foundation gives grants to swim facilities in Southern California.

    NPR: L.A. Effort Narrows Swimming's Racial Gap

  • Representatives of African countries, ASEAN, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of American States pleaded for debt relief and efforts to narrow the "digital divide" -- the fast-growing gap between nations with access to information technology and those starved of IT.

    CNN: Just do it

  • For most of the others, the human-capital gap is large, and likely to widen rather than narrow.

    ECONOMIST: The brainpower famine begins to bite

  • Edinburgh at last began to apply some pressure of their own and, after Wallace was sent to the sin-bin for an infringement, Paterson kicked the resulting penalty to narrow the gap to three points.

    BBC: Ulster 13-16 Edinburgh

  • Over time, though, lower average prices, more configuration options (such as tablets with integrated or detachable keyboards), and better (if not iPad-level) tablet app support, should set up Android tablets to narrow the gap.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: Android's tablet traversal

  • According to Ms. Sahay, the current account gap was likely more than 6% in the October-December quarter, but it would narrow to below 5.5% during the January-March period.

    WSJ: India's Trade Deficit Narrows

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