Sentence examples for grew more important from inspiring English sources

As the trading function grew more important, those who remained craftsmen fell into a condition of dependence upon the traders.

Then, with increasing leisure time for readers to both play and watch, sports grew more important to life and lifestyle.

Transit trade grew more important, and between 1866 and 1872 the New Waterway was dug from Rotterdam to the North Sea to accommodate larger oceangoing steamships.

But there is nothing so debilitating to a footballer as fear, and as the matches grew more important the torrent of goals started to slow: the final round of group games might have had a few goal-heavy treasures –a couple of 4-1s and a 3-2 leap out – but with 42 goals and 2.625 a game it was the beginning of the end.

The association grew more important last month with the birth of FORBES ASIA.

Donald Keene believes that as Teika grew more important, he resented Go-Toba's peremptory use of him.

"Maybe the hearth of the evening news will grow more important," Heyward says.

Its voice has become increasingly influential as cash crops have grown more important to the Brazilian economy.

A rosy view, perhaps, but as governments find themselves increasingly strapped for cash, intelligent giving can only grow more important.

In our global economy, the ability to understand languages other than one's native tongue grows more important every day.

As broadband has become more widespread — some governments want to turn it into a universal service like electricity or water — the quality of connections has grown more important.