Less-and-less Sentence Examples

After this, even the daytime categories became less and less each year.

Free music downloads for iMesh are therefore still a possibility, but people are using the service less and less to get the free stuff.

His resolve to keep away from her began to make less and less sense.

In other directions the polarization becomes less and less complete as we approach the vertical.

When the Liberals returned to power in 1880 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Sherbrooke, but from 1875 till his death at Warlingham, Surrey, on the 27th of July 1892, his health was constantly failing, and by degrees he figured less and less in public life.

Finally, in the Pontian period, the lagoons became gradually less and less salt, and the deposits are characterized especially by the abundance of shells.

After the Revolution Nansen continued in high honour, but he chiefly occupied himself with commerce, and was less and less consulted in purely political matters.

But even at the time when union was most important, this statement went further than the facts would warrant, and in the course of the following century it became less and less true.

The terrigenous ingredients in the deposits become less and less abundant as one goes farther into the deep ocean and away from the continental margins.

On the other hand, the State, which could count upon the support of an ever-increasing number of prosperous and loyal subjects, sought to protect its own interests and showed itself less and less inclined to tolerate the extreme claims of the pope.

For many years the surface alluvial mining in South Island became less and less profitable.

All these measures could not alter the fact that the national economy became less and less equal to the tasks imposed upon it by the war.

The taking of life and " moon-shining," however, have become less and less frequent among them, and Berea College, at Berea, the Lincoln Memorial University, and other schools in Kentucky and adjoining states have done much to educate them and bring them more in harmony with the outside community.

It can be shown mathematically that the velocity of propagation will be greatly increased if the frequency of the light-wave is slightly greater, and greatly diminished if it is slightly less than the natural frequency of the molecules; also that these effects become less and less marked as the difference in the two frequencies increases.

As time goes on, textual criticism will have less and less to do.

During the next session he acted vigorously in opposition, but his conduct was always viewed with distrust by his new associates, and his attacks on the ministry of Lord North grew less and less animated in proportion to its apparent fixity of tenure.

After Cyprian the African episcopate, in proportion as it perfected its organization, seemed to feel less and less the need for close relations with the apostolic see.

The original editions of Paracelsus's works are getting less and less common; even the English versions are among the rarest of their class.

But England, which formerly supplied almost everything to her own colonies and to many foreign countries besides, has, under the modified conditions of abundant steam tonnage everywhere, become less and less of a distributive country.

The pig is rarely figured and was less and less tolerated as the Egyptians grew in ceremonial purity.

The need of a separate organization became less and less apparent.

As this last stage is approached the "chela" becomes less and less dependent on the guidance of traditions and scriptures.

During the last quarter of the 19th century there was an ever-increasing literary activity in Finland, and it took the form less and less of the publication of Swedish works, but more and more that of examples of the aboriginal vernacular.

By the new policy inaugurated by Dr William Robertson (1721-1793), which led to the second secession, the assembly compelled presbyteries to give effect to presentations, and in a long series of disputed settlements the " call," though still held essential to a settlement, was less and less regarded, until it was declared that it was not necessary, and that the church courts were bound to induct any qualified presentee.

These vows were at first purely voluntary and temporary; but public opinion naturally grew less and less tolerant of those who, having once formed and published so solemn a resolution, broke it afterwards.

In his later years his diaries have less and less of personal detail, and repeated entries prefaced by the letters "G.D."

The natural end of life is that all the organs should become old and gradually decay at the same time, so that at the last the individual should become less and less active, weaker and weaker, and finally die without any definite disease, without pain and without struggle.

The crests of the different kinds of waves will therefore appear to diverge as they get farther from the body, and the waves themselves will be less and less perceptible.

On the lower Congo the prevailing winds are from the west and the southwest, but this prevalence becomes less and less marked towards the interior, until on the upper river they come from the south-east.

But as the passions of 1660 cooled, as the hatred with which the Puritans had been regarded while their reign was recent gave place to pity, he was less and less harshly treated.

Thus while the coast-lands, especially in the southeast, enjoy an ample rainfall, the winds as they advance west and north contain less and less moisture, so that over the larger part of the country drought is common and severe.

This excess of the deductive spirit explains at once both the merits and the defects of his two great works, which will probably remain political classics, though they are less and less likely to be used as practical guides.

But in the West public discipline continued, though under less and less rigorous conditions.

But already there were tokens of its decay; even then the eastern parts of the Tarim basin seem to have been growing less and less populous.

They were thus driven to rely upon the armies, which also desired war and were becoming less and less civic in temper.

The victims of this process were the urban proletariat, whose treatment by their employers in trade became less and less protective and beneficent, and the nobility, straitened in their financial resources, uprooted from their ancient strongholds, and gradually despoiled of their power by a monarchy based On popular support.

Meeting with less and less resistance,Napoleon went still further and would tolerate no neutral power.

The act of presentation (Vorstellen) then becomes partly transformed into an effort, and its product, the idea, becomes in the same proportion less and less intense till a position of equilibrium is reached; and then at length the remainders coalesce.

Analysing the trade statistics as between 1872 and 1902, he insisted that British progress involved a relative decline compared with that of protectionist foreign countries like Germany and the United States; Great Britain exported less and less of manufactured goods, and imported more and more; the exports to foreign countries had decreased, and it was only the increased exports to the colonies that maintained the British position.

However, if you apply a 3-sigma cutoff, you will have less and less spots as you get out to high resolution.

However, despite rotating infusion sites, some sites felt slightly lumpy beneath the skin, and became less and less reliable.

However studentsâ unions are campaigning less and less on international issues, passing them off as Ultra Vires or not their role.

The most will be cut off in the position of the lines corresponding to the furthest swing out, then less and less till the furthest swing in, then more and more till the furthest swing out, when the appearance will be exactly as at first.

The king held his court in person less and less often, and it pronounced its decrees in his absence; we even find him pleading his cause before it as plaintiff or defendant.

Then Henry Ford came along, followed by a host of others, and cars got better and better while getting less and less expensive.

We have stigmatized racism; and while it unquestionably still exists between many races, racism is becoming less and less relevant.

As the poorest nations become wealthier, they too will grow less and less inclined toward war.

The few signs I used became less and less adequate, and my failures to make myself understood were invariably followed by outbursts of passion.

Even this became less and less intelligible until the time when Miss Sullivan began to teach me.

It is a fact that today's consumers are carrying cash and writing checks less and less frequently.

While there are some universities that offer Yiddish programs, the chance of using the language is becoming less and less possible, making it more difficult for students to pick it up.

Finding babysitting jobs available in your area usually is not hard, though with families spending less and less on just about everything from entertainment to childcare, your pay might not be as high as you would have hoped.

For example, many new parents find themselves sleeping less and less as they are 'waiting' for the baby to cry, particularly if their partner doesn't seem as helpful about getting up to take care of the baby.

Games decrease in value as the titles get less and less popular.

They are still picky eaters, generally eating less-and less consistently-than their parents would like.

In fact, many say that over time, your skin just becomes less sensitive, and as a result, the process hurts less and less.

Animated Christmas cards are no longer a novelty, so don't be surprised if in a few years you start seeing the mailman less and less around the holidays.

However, getting into the business can be difficult, particularly in an age when print newspapers are becoming less and less common.