Over the years, Pellicano's relationship with Fields became increasingly close.
The relationship between educational theory and other fields of study became increasingly close.
The government has become increasingly close to China, a northern neighbor.
And after the president's death, Robert and Jackie had become increasingly close — some believe suspiciously so.
His portraits, based on images from newspapers and books, became increasingly close cropped, rendering the faces nearly abstract.
Lost in a white-out on an autumn mountainside, I became increasingly close to panic, starting to run across the snow-covered rocks trying to get my bearings.
"Everybody talks by cellphone and the relationship evolves because you become increasingly distant from whomever you lie to, and you become increasingly close to whomever you tell the truth to".
Instead, bin Laden appears to have become increasingly close to another subordinate, Atiyah abd-al Rahman, who was the frequent recipient of missives that make the al-Qaeda leader seem out of touch with how depleted his organization had become.
The pair have become increasingly close since Peacock joined the Rhinos in 2006, rising above suggestions that the national captain may struggle to return to the ranks under Sinfield at club level, having lifted the Super League trophy in his last season with Bradford.
In the third and final series, which has just reached its fourth episode in the UK, Katrine's links with Birgitte Nyborg, the former and perhaps future prime minister of Denmark, have become increasingly close: having been professional antagonists, they now work together and, in an intriguing patterning, if one is having a successful personal life, it is almost guaranteed the other won't be.
