Example sentences of "widened [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the passing of time , the subject expanded further , institutional pressures became greater , and a gap widened between the professionals who taught literature and the poets , novelists , and dramatists , somewhere out in society , who wrote it , notwithstanding the increasing presence of contemporary literature as a university subject . |
| 2 | The scope of the specialty of venereology has widened over the years , and following recommendations from the Royal College of Physicians has now been renamed ‘ genito-urinary medicine ’ to take into account the small proportion of patients attending the clinics who have a ‘ venereal disease ’ . |
| 3 | The road had been widened over the years . |
| 4 | For both adult and infant mortality rates , two trends are clearly discernible : there has been a substantial reduction in mortality rates for all socio-economic groups ; the reduction , however , has been more substantial for the upper socio-economic groups with the result that socio-economic inequalities have widened over the years . |
| 5 | Why , then , have differences in socio-economic mortality rates widened over the years ? |
| 6 | What is puzzling is why these inequalities have widened over the years . |
| 7 | Social class inequalities of tenure have widened over the years if the comparison is made between the unskilled and the professional groups . |
| 8 | The report blamed appalling living conditions and prejudice within the police and legal systems for the discrepancy , which had widened over the years . |