Sentence examples for steadily narrow from inspiring English sources

As the country has sunk into a double-dip recession, the trend has been for this gap to steadily narrow over the course of this year – from 21 points in the coalition's advantage last Christmas, to just nine points last month.

We're steadily narrowing the margin.

Through several drafts, that exception was steadily narrowed.

And, lately, "Good Morning America" has steadily narrowed the gap between the two programs.

Old distinctions in status between professional court painters and amateur scholar-artists had been steadily narrowing.

In the past several years, the gap between demand and supply, once considerable, has steadily narrowed, and today is almost negligible.

The Republican presidential race has steadily narrowed to a two-man contest — for now, at least — between Mr. Romney and Mr. Santorum.

But the difference in growth between western and central China and the coast, wide just a few years ago, has steadily narrowed (see chart).

In part, that is because the field is steadily narrowing: Mitch Daniels, another governor with a strong following among fiscal conservatives, bowed out of the race this week.

After the last war, the gap in income between rich and poor got steadily narrower: we have never been more equal than in the late 1970s.

However, the two-point lead for Labour will still cause alarm in the party's HQ, particularly as it has been steadily narrowing, with 11 months left until polling day.