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He pulled the thick curtains together, leaving just a narrow gap.

It's up to us to fill the gap. What kind of gap?

And we said that most of the world's volcanoes occur at the boundaries of these tectonic plates where you have hot molten rock squeezing up through gaps between the plates.

You see, where there are gaps, open areas in the forest, the soil there changes.

In other words, organic matter gets broken down and added into the soil more quickly in these gaps than in the surrounding forest.

This is because the gaps among the original grains are often not totally plugged with cementing chemicals; also, parts of the original grains may become dissolved by percolating groundwater, either while consolidation is taking place or at any time afterwards.

The manifesto calls for a greater effort to recruit young scientists to fill the gap left by a wave of retirements expected over the next decade.

I think there's a huge gap in government oversight.

Hmm, hang on. There's a...There's...um...an asterisk gap next to one of the job numbers here.

For example, a gap just below aluminum suggested a new element would be found with properties analogous to those of aluminum.

So the periodic table had a gap between elements 42 and 44.

Such changes are all but invisible over the short time scale of modern observations, and, it is argued, they are usually obscured by innumerable gaps in the imperfect fossil record.

Yet both chemists were sufficiently farsighted to leave gaps where their analyses of periodic physical and chemical properties indicated that new elements should be located.

Well, early versions of the periodic table had gaps, missing elements.

The gap between rich and poor is big in China now.

How was the gap between a walking mammal and a swimming whale bridged?

There followed a gap of four years, during which William joined the Army.