But a sizable gap still yawns between theory and practice.
A gap yawned, where planking should have been.
A complete gap yawned where the mansion had been.
But last year, the gap yawned - to $850 million for investment banking and $212 million for trading.
The gap between chiefs' pay and that of lower-level workers has yawned in recent years.
Don't ask for whom the gap yawns.
The gap yawned like jaws off the bow.
An oblong gap was yawning to receive the swerving car.
A gap yawned between the rest of the world and us.
A gap in the ledge, no longer bridged by its thin skin of ice and snow, yawned before us.