Example sentences of "steadily [v-ing] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet by the 1830s , some 50 students a year were gaining their qualifying diploma ( after an oral examination , conducted exclusively by medical men ) and the profession was steadily gaining recognition and status . |
| 2 | Support for the drug among women has been further heightened by the rise in anti-abortion activism in many parts of the world , which is steadily gaining ground and fighting hard to have RU 486 banned . |
| 3 | He said that Riddle 's business was a sound concern with a steadily rising turnover and increasing profitability . |
| 4 | Shell never fights costly bid battles , but spends $1.5 billion a year steadily buying oil and gas assets . |
| 5 | What is not in doubt is that in spite of huge emigration , steadily dropping natality and enormous wartime losses , the European population as a whole still went up throughout this period ( see also pp. 367–68 ) . |