Sentence examples for were increasingly short from inspiring English sources

"Exchanges were increasingly short".

The real Adams books were increasingly short, I think.

By the late 70s, the Wilson and then Callaghan administrations were increasingly short of money; and their more forward-thinking members were increasingly interested in the growth of consumerism and private property, and how Labour might adjust to it, before the other parties could take full advantage.

"In a nation that is increasingly short of natural gas, it has got to make sense," Mr Conn said.

I'm increasingly short tempered with it and just click 'report spam' to deal with much of it, and even after that there's still the worthwhile mail to respond to.

The driving force behind these statistics is convenience – we are increasingly short on time, spending longer at work and activities outside the home, which naturally means that we will grab something while we are out and about.

DAKAR, Senegal — Openly defying its West African neighbors, the government of Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivory Coast strongman who is increasingly short of cash in the face of international sanctions, says it will seize local branches of the region's central bank.

It was not clear whether the rebel gains reported on Sunday resulted from a coordinated attack effort, from NATO bombing or simply from the mounting pressures weighing on Colonel Qaddafi's loyalists, who are increasingly short of fuel, food and ammunition as the international effort to end the conflict has gained momentum.

Your nonfiction book published in 2014 will, on average, sell less than 250 copies per year, fewer than 3,000 over its lifetime, which is increasingly short since publishers don't backlist as much as they used to.

However, ongoing political instability and economic decline in Madagascar means that many specialist nutritional centres are increasingly short of skilled staff, and of the therapeutic food and milk used to treat malnutrition – making UNICEF's work critical.

But real wage growth has been slow with work contracts being increasingly short-term.