It was a slow start, but as the evening progressed a steady stream of people meandered into the police tent.
Did some progress at a steady rate, while others progressed slowly initially and then accelerated as the disease progressed, while others had a fast initial deterioration which then levelled off?
He has never been beyond the quarter-finals, but his progress at Wimbledon reflects his progress overall, a steady improvement, year by year.
The films did not progress in a steady flow: after "This Sporting Life" came only five more features: "If...".
Where once the Knicks charted their progress through a steady rise in the standings, collecting precious percentage points at a time, they now count in reverse.
Computers do wondrous things, but computer science itself is largely a discipline of step-by-step progress as a steady stream of innovations in hardware, software and networking pile up.
On the other hand, not only the effects of the column design parameters on the progress to a steady state but also the effects of several operation variables on the top product have been evaluated for safely operating the HIxMDC-50L.
Famously, he was against evolutionary progress -- a steady, upwards development through time toward humankind -- and in fact I quoted him to this effect.
He argued that the theory was in keeping with what Applegate called "the inevitability of progress", seeing a steady march toward perfection as a part of God's plan.
There was a consistent tendency for a player to play in lower divisions as his career progresses and a steady increase in the employment of non-white players from 7.6% in 1986 to 13.2% by 1996 (a 2001 figure is not available).
Cancer nanotherapeutics are progressing at a steady rate; research and development in the field has experienced an exponential growth since early 2000's.
