For many women, it's a phase that will pass – either because they take stock, they realise it's becoming a problem, it becomes boring – or their life fills up again with better alternatives.
"In the last one-day match, he was dropped twice before he was finally out, so he is riding his luck - but he is not capitalising on it and it's becoming a problem".
"It's spacious," Mrs. Beck said, "but it's old, the owner is really old and it's becoming a problem".
"It's becoming a problem".
While water is particularly scarce in the West, it is becoming a problem all over the country as the population grows.
The fashionable source of anxiety in both Europe and Asia is whether America is becoming so different from everywhere else that it is becoming a problem for the world, not a solution.
"It is becoming a problem because we keep upping the ante, and standards never get high enough, and at some point nobody's going to graduate from high school except the two kids that are going to Harvard," he said.
More seriously, it's becoming a problem that any time famous people try to help, and behave decently, they are automatically branded as self-serving show offs, whose every effort should be undermined and denigrated, simply because they are celebrities.
One of our first acts as an office - good cash and credit control is a genuine team and collaborative effort – was to make time to evaluate our processes and find out the reasons why it was becoming a problem, economic environment notwithstanding.
"In my casual talks with bishops and archbishops, they mention that it is becoming a problem.
