How would each of the two men close a gap like that?

Both cities have been trying to close a gap between them and the perceived favorite, Paris.

Even without tax cuts, he must find ways to close a gap of nearly $5 billion.

Far away, something like a web of shimmering radiance closed a gap in the rock wall.

Then he said, "But even with a matching velocity, it will close a gap of anything less than five or six thousand light-years."

And yes, Rudy has vowed to close a gap of $2.7 billion: in how large a budget?

That would close a gap, the brief argued.

Instead, Indiana will soon cash a check that closes a gap most had believed insoluble.

Three days after taking office, the Mayor announced he was delaying the hiring of 1,800 officers to close a gap in the city budget.

Mr. Bush, in addition, has been accused of being unwilling to close a gap between his words and deeds.

And Mayor Giuliani had to close a gap of more than 8 percent in the first full year following his inauguration.

That night the division co-operated with the Guards on the left to close a gap north of the railway line.

Mr. Rowland must still figure out how to close a gap next year of at least $700 million.

The cuts would come on top of smaller ones adopted in December to close a gap in the current year's budget.

Workers stacked sandbags to close a gap in the flood wall behind the Pyramid, where the tournament is being played.

The increase would begin to close a gap in which revenues from fares declined 29 percent while costs have risen 67 percent.

We would close a gap.

I had a sense of people stretching to close a gap, of trying to mend a tragedy by retreating to tradition.

Mr. Dinkins said he needed the money to help close a gap in the city's $29.5 billion budget.

This legislation closed a gap in Venezuelan law, in which the internal trafficking of adults was not prohibited.

This new city closed a gap in the savoy settlements on the northern shores of Lake Geneva.

The cuts would be a central element of a plan to close a gap in the Mayor's budget caused by falling tax revenue and spending increases.

To close a gap between the church and the barracks (formerly the convent building) and the south wall, the soldiers built a palisade.

At the same time some actions outlined inthe plan would go toward closing a gap of $500 million in the current fiscal year.

The residency requirement, which won bipartisan support, was part of an attempt to close a gap of $11 billion in the state's 1992 fiscal budget.