Sentence examples for was getting poorer from inspiring English sources

The empire, which ruled dominions from the Netherlands to Peru, was getting poorer and weaker.

Sierra Leone was getting poorer each year even before the war, largely because of mismanagement and corruption.

That people should have lost their jobs during the turbulent latter years of apartheid is not surprising, because the country was getting poorer.

For example, he said, Honda officials were unhappy that the 2010 Accord 4-cylinder was getting poorer in-town fuel economy than the heavier Subaru Legacy with a 4-cylinder and all-wheel drive.

The report, by the United Nations Development Program, also said the sub-Saharan African region as a whole was getting poorer, with the prospect that rising numbers of Africans will subsist on less than $1 a day in the years to come.

"The family was getting poor.

But she was getting poor results.

More people are getting poor, the poor are getting poorer".

"They are getting richer while we are getting poorer".

While the rich are getting richer, the poor in Connecticut are getting poorer.

It is very clear: the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.