The same comparison six months earlier (for the first half of 2009 vs. 2008) showed a 16 percent spread, meaning year-over-year price changes are narrowing.

比较08、09两年上半年能看出16%的变动，这意味着每一年价格的变化都在逐渐变小。

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The continued strong depositors appetite for savings deposits in part reflected the narrowing of the interest rate spread between the short-term time deposit rate and the savings deposit rate.

存户将资金存放为储蓄存款的显著趋势持续，部分反映短期定期存款与储蓄存款之间的息差收窄的情况。

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The vast spread of prices Illustration by Jac often distracts from a narrowing range of experience.

而价格之间的巨大差异往往带来的不同体验是有限的。

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And the ECB may have brought Europe one step closer to debt mutualisation, prompting a narrowing of the spread between the borrowing costs of Germany and the periphery.

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Thus, a narrowing of the spread is justified.

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The euro zone's temperature chart the spread of bond yields over German bunds is gradually narrowing.

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