Sentence examples for steadily less likely from inspiring English sources
And as Farber points out, the reign of doubt at the Israeli rabbinate began as it was becoming steadily less likely that an American Jew would be able to dig an Orthodox marriage contract out of her mother's drawer.
On this theory, the most ardent pro-independence forces in Taiwan might think it better to act than to wait: mainland military strength is growing steadily, and a future American administration might be less likely than the incumbent one to defend Taiwan.
Results confirm previous findings: young people who show very high levels of effort (top quartile) appear less likely to be NEET, while the risk increases steadily for those with low effort and external locus of control (top quartile of the external index).
The high-performing students steadily improve their exam scores over the semester, and are more likely to attend class and submit extra-credit work, whereas the low performers show a steady decline in exam scores and become less likely to be fully involved in the course.
In Russia, as much as we disdain the naked aggression and hubris of Vladimir Putin, the chance that his downfall in the wake of steadily increasing western pressures would lead to a liberal, democratic alternative seems far less likely than the ascendency of a more chauvinistic, right wing successor, allied with the intelligence services, the military and the Russian Orthodox Church.
While results did not achieve statistical significance, cases tended to be less likely than controls to report smoking throughout pregnancy (p = 0.07) or to report smoking steadily within the same category of number of cigarettes throughout pregnancy (p = 0.05).
Less likely than unlikely?
Consensus seems less likely.
But this looks less and less likely.
