Sentence examples similar to progressively run-down from inspiring English sources

In an email to MP Geoffrey Robinson the company said it proposed to "progressively run down Defence Services work carried out at Ansty by a combination of natural termination of legacy programmes or re-location of on-going work to other facilities".

Since 2005, the hospital has been renovated progressively from its run-down state by Partners in Health and the Rwandan Ministry of Health with UNICEF support.

"Run-down," he said.

"And it's so run-down".

"It was very run-down," he said.

Or a little run-down?

Don't look cheap or run-down.

When the mainspring was fully wound, the gut or chain pulled on the smallest radius of the cone-shaped fusee; as the mainspring ran down, the leverage was progressively increased as the gut or chain pulled on a larger radius.

Run Down?

He ran down everything.

"You seem really run down".