Meanwhile, Zimbabwe, once a breadbasket for southern Africa, falls ever further into poverty and famine.
Thus popular sites become ever more popular, while obscure sites recede ever further into the ether.
The needle on a pressure gauge twitches ever further into the red.
Since buying Newcourt, the 92-year-old CIT has moved ever further into making loans backed by securities.
But, tellingly, no one comes off as beyond redemption except Boaz, who sinks ever further into a bog of depravity.
Which means that the man they called the "man who invented tomorrow" is fading ever further into yesterday.
As housing developments have pushed ever further into the wilderness, human carelessness means wildfires have increased dramatically.
Do we go the well-worn path of big oil, ever further into the last pristine corners of the earth for our last fossil-fuel fix?
While England slumps ever further into ignoble disarray, Amis's book may help maintain in me, for a little while longer, our laughable yet indelible sense of British superiority.
Kusama herself, delighted by her escalating auction prices but paranoid about the least implication of indebtedness to any other artist, has retreated ever further into gurulike ambiguities.
He also expresses the hope that the Conservatives will recover their one-nation mojo, instead of descending ever further into Europhobia.
