Gaping Hole

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These words are often used together. You can go to the definition of gaping
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This may be hard to contest but the real problem here is the gaping hole in the data on community health services.

We have therefore increased payments: we could not close the gap completely, but we have halved it, to leave a gaping hole of 8%.

Very often, what is found is not a gaping hole but a dip in the ground similar to a shallow crater.

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To enact this and no more would be to leave a gaping hole in the intended control as regards functional land.

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This is a gaping hole and any accountant with the slightest wit will already be planning ways in which to charge through this loophole.

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That is done for the sensible reason that he does not want a gaping hole where the window should be in the middle of winter.

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But to pour millions down the drain of an ever gaping hole is no incentive for the trustees to establish any sensible policy.

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Whatever the price gyrations that may take place between now and then, this is going to leave a gaping hole in our balance of payments.

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But their memory will linger on in the form of a gaping hole in the unitary development plan.

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I would not be confident about prescribing schemes, but my key concern is that there may be a gaping hole .

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Indeed, it was meant to fill the gaping hole in their promises of extra spending on education.

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Therefore, we face a gaping hole in what was promised.

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It is another gaping hole in the availability of housing accommodation on a permanent basis for ordinary people.

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There is a gaping hole in all that argument and philosophical, financial, actuarial and economic detail.

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First, his policies have a gaping hole of £500 million in them, which will be withdrawn from universities.

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I would have thought that that leaves a huge gaping hole .

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Without that, there is a gaping hole at the heart of his pensions proposals.

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Indeed, the new bureaucracy could be very dangerous in blurring what is a gaping hole .

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This is a gaping hole which destroys all the progress made by this new legislation.

To that extent, there is a gaping hole in any economic embargo that this country or its allies seek to impose.

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