Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [adv] the difference " in BNC.
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1 | That means either taxpayers or consumers will have to cough up the cash to make up the difference between expensive British coal and cheaper foreign coal . |
2 | Rather you should aim for 20% ( on the inches-per-gallon reckoning ) ; increase that gradually , over six months , to 50 per cent , and then allow natural growth rate to make up the difference . |
3 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
4 | The preserved GMP can sometimes fall short of what you would have had from SERPS , and in these cases the state makes up the difference . |
5 | If his employer 's scheme has ‘ contracted out ’ , they must pay you half his guaranteed minimum pension , and the state makes up the difference . |
6 | It is possible to cut a more readily available 86/88 inch Series One roof and fit a new piece of aluminium to the middle to make up the difference , but this is not really a perfect solution . |
7 | There is a facility in that for people who choose a home that has a higher charge , to arrange a third party to make up the difference , and we have a number of those , those type of contracts . |