After initially investing around $2.6 billion, Goldman Sachs has raised more than $4.5 billion by progressively selling down its stake in the Chinese bank.
The I.P.O. is also a major victory for Ziggo's private equity backers, which are expected to progressively sell their stake in the company over the next few years.
A.I.G. has been progressively selling its stake in its Asian insurance business, the A.I.A. Group, since listing the company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in an initial public offering that raised $17.8 billion.
Analysts expect United Kingdom Financial Investments, the British agency in charge of managing the holdings in the country's bailed-out banks, to progressively sell down its stakes in both Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland over the coming years.
While the controlling power of the danwei has been progressively diluted, and the land holdings of state-owned enterprises increasingly sold off to private developers, the model of walled compounds continues in Beijing to this day.
This led to the introduction of lighter-weighing cigarettes sold in progressively larger pack sizes, a uniquely Australian phenomenon, which minimized the duty payable and the wholesale value of packs leading to lower state fees as well, and a substantially lower cost per stick.
This may work well for the short term but over time the conductor burns out, his/her orchestra quits practicing and it is progressively difficult to sell tickets for the next symphony.
And as more iPhones are being sold, it's getting progressively worse.
The salt content of bread sold in the UK has been progressively reduced over the last decade.
And finally, there's the ultimate deception: the marketing-research-driven con, the appalling bait-and-switch practiced on the woman who is being promised relationship, being sold on community, and who is in fact buying into a progressively deeper isolation and seclusion.
