From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishyawning gap/gulf/chasm (between something)yawning gap/gulf/chasm (between something)a very large difference between two groups, things, or people the yawning gap between the two parties the yawning gulf between the rich and the poor → yawn
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yawning gap/gulf/chasm (between something)• In publishing the Hepplewhite Guide the Taylors were filling a yawning gap.• There was nothing there but a terrible, yawning gap.• There is and always has been a yawning gap at the budget end of the amplifier market.• The yawning gap between the two was deeply worrying.• To a yawning gap in how I see the world and how the world sees me.• Passion 57% A yawning chasm opens up after these four attributes.• There are yawning gulfs stretching down into the abyss which have often swallowed up cities that have fallen into them.• A yawning gap was forecast between anticipated social expenditures and resources. 