I like this jacket better than that one, but it costs almost three times _______.

She is not going to buy the sofa because it _____ too much room in the living room.

 After the earthquake, the president _____ a three-day period of mourning, the first-ever event of its kind for ordinary people.

 Compared with male graduates, a(n) ________ small number of female graduates can get employed when they go job­hunting.

 —Jack can't concentrate on his lessons recently.—Yes, that might ____ why he did so badly in the last test.