How To Use Successive In A Sentence

The first, built by Solomon (1012 B.C.) appears from the Biblical description [6] to have combined Egyptian conceptions (successive courts, lofty entrance-pylons, the Sanctuary and the sekos or “Holy of Holies”) with A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
She was cautious, but Feinstein finds no trace of dishonour in the care she took to keep herself alive and free through successive waves of revolution and purgation.
This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
Lions string together eight successive phases on the last play of the half.
A subsequent kerfuffle (rather drawn out) sounding not unlike a fist fight interspersed with successive shards of glass falling. BEHINDLINGS

This pattern was repeated during WWII, during German occupation, and later by successive Communist regimes.
The blame rests with successive weak and myopic Cong govts whose stupid policies destroyed the economy, leaving India pauperized, unable to help anyone as she herself was abegging for aid. India vs China SnapShot
Successive governments are accused of prioritising the motorist by cutting vehicle taxes for fuel-efficient models and spending billions on road building. Times, Sunday Times
With the development of tourism, tourists to Mount Wudang Jinding successive incremental.
At the national level, they show that for most of the twentieth century, each successive cohort of young people left home at an average age below that of the cohort immediately preceding them.
If they continue in this vein it will be a brave man who bets against them winning a fourth successive title.
By 1134, two of Sancho's sons had successively acceded to both thrones and died without heirs, leaving only one son left - Ramiro, Bishop of Barbastro-Roda.
How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
The following centuries saw the successive rise and fall of new civilisations.
Successive Westminster governments are responsible for the above problems. Times, Sunday Times
The process continues to spread outward, triggering successive generations of fewer and fewer stars.
The instructions as to sterilisation are rarely given in full; the routine method of exposure in the steam steriliser at 100° C. (without pressure) for twenty minutes on each of three successive days for all fluid media, and thirty minutes on each of three successive days for all liquefiable or solid media must be carried out; and only when these general rules are to be departed from are further details given. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
The only better run is by West Indies, who won ten successive Tests against England in the course of consecutive series whitewashes in 1984 and 1985-86.
It was the second successive week for both teams that last-gasp field goals had been decisive. Times, Sunday Times
I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
Successive home defeats by Manchester United, Partizan Belgrade and Birmingham inside eight days left the 70-year-old down in the dumps and scratching his head.
This is no mean achievement as it means achieving Guild membership consistently for five successive years.
And the issue is this -- starting from the contemptuous defiance of the scriptural doctrine upon the necessity of making provision for poverty as an indispensable element in civil communities, the economy of the age has lowered its tone by graduated descents, in each one successively of the four last _decennia_. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
This is the price for successive governments' failure to build power plants. The Sun
India began exporting wheat and rice two years ago to cut bulging stocks built up after successive bumper harvests.
However, robots cannot do it all and to postulate successive layers of repair bots is not viable. Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch
The paper was successively folded over or covered so that each participant could not see what his or her predecessor had done.
That was enough to seal a morale-boosting win for the visitors, who had lost their past five successive league matches. Times, Sunday Times
They enact the roles they have imbibed from their forefathers acting successively over seven generations.
Five successive failures; they made the final only once. Times, Sunday Times
RM: The interactive whiteboard maker announced a third successive year of record sales and profits. Times, Sunday Times
Successive governments have been clueless about the continuing escalation of crime in our nation.
But even out of government, successive administrations in Nigeria sought his advice.
Using your Eclipse views (or perspectives, if you want to go further back), you can apply the method of successive division to derive your components.
The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
The narrator describes his successive days with Usher and his artmaking thus: ‘An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphurous luster over all’.
It was the Christian Democratic Party's fourth successive electoral defeat.
It was the third successive year that she had been hailed as the world's best on the sport's greatest stage, a far cry from her days as a carpenter and joiner.
Fitzgerald is keen to emulate Martin's record of three successive world titles.
No orchestra has a greater Mahler pedigree than the Concertgebouw, beginning in the early 20th century under Willem Mengelberg, and continuing under successive music directors – Van Beinum, Haitink, Chailly – right up to the present day. Mahler: Symphony No 3 – review
Something of a maverick figure, he has a long record of raising awkward questions for successive British administrations.
STRENGTH AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility. Ulysses
Needing to win the second set to reach the final, the York pair were rocked as the Erewash pair notched three successive singles to lead 3-1.
The changes in asexual reproduction are more likely to be a “single point mutation” and get copied in every successive generation. Think Progress » Poll: Large Number Of Texans Doubt The Theory Of Evolution, Believe In Human-Dinosaur Coexistence
From the late 18th century, successive dukes commissioned images of members of their households, particularly the keepers and huntsmen.
The artist capitalizes on the corrosive etching process in each successive state until the finished print embodies the scatological essence of its message.
Each successive revelation of incompetence is another nail in the chairman's coffin.
He had acted as personating agent for the party at successive elections and was always to the fore at Church gate collections and fund raising events.
Knowledge is never static, but successive generations of nurses fail to implement the findings of research.
Some of the rooms have floors with fine linenfold panelling, all covered over by the paint of successive tenants. Times, Sunday Times
Bijerinck disproved this theory when he showed that the sap could successively transmit the fully virulent disease through a large number of plant generations.
Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people.
Every successive element of fluid undergoes the throttling process in a continuous stream.
During every successive exuviation in this embryo state, they assume more and more of their perfect and established form. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
First, it is suggested that successive attempts to expound a Marxian theory of nature have see-sawed between naturalistic and social constructionist positions.
And it is what happened to the Republic of Ireland, where successive administrations borrowed heavily for job creation purposes.
Each successive classification of salivary neoplasia holds space for malignancies that defy these classification schemata.
The visiting team remain trapped in relegation trouble, despite coming into this game after three successive wins. Times, Sunday Times
At an advanced age he became a priest and enjoyed the patronage of Innocent XI, who made him successively referendary Utriusque Signaturae, auditor of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The victory capped a tough week for second seed Edberg, who reached the final by winning three successive five-set matches.
He then joined Imperial Oil Limited where he made his mark in successively more responsible assignments until he gained the Presidency in 1960. The Incredible Resource Battle
Furthermore, successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control.
This was their ninth successive win and it took them to the top of Division Two.
Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
The unidentifiable objects mouldering in the fridge were successively replaced by jars of pickled onions, Cheddar cheese and Stilton.
The process flourished less than two decades before "ambrotype," the next of many successively faster and cheaper photographic processes, began to replace it. Merced Sun-Star: front
Some scholars say this was brought about by the economic squeeze the country suffered during the successive invasions by Japanese forces under Hideyoshi Toyotomi in the 1590s and the Manchu Qing Empire in 1637. English.chosun.com : Total
The principal production of this palm is the toddy, which is procured in the same manner as from other palms, or in the following mode: one of the spatae or shoot of fructification is, on the first appearance of fruit, beaten for three successive days with a small stick, with a view of determining the sap to the wounded part. North Coast Culture
Keeping an eye on the sea has been the job of 14 successive keepers at Point Pinos Lighthouse since it opened in 1855 in Pacific Grove, northwest of Monterey.
This concept has been applied successively to painting, architecture and sculpture.
Successive governments have taken no interest in restoring our alienated lands.
Workers have not been paid their salaries for up to 45 months, as successive administrations have left them without pay.
Successive drafts of some chapters of this book have increasingly cited his work. Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
Inhibition of human basophil degranulation by successive histamine dilutions: results of a European multi-centre trial. Dana Ullman: Disinformation on Homeopathy: Two Leading Sources
Four successive days, furthermore, brought forth a quartet of riveting scraps.
Successive administrations have failed to deliver adequate funding for education.
It was his second successive defeat and one that put a massive dent in his plans to fight Mayweather. The Sun
Toews witters on about the length of time it takes to resolve complaints under the current system, and he's absolutely right: successive governments' intransigeance on the issue have ensured that complaints before the Canadian Human Rights Commission have proceeded at a glacial pace. Don't Toews me, bro
One of them, ready for use, was covered with the black earth called 'frazil', which is extracted from the site of old charcoal works; the other, in course of construction, showed the successive layers of logs ranged in circles inside, ready for the fire. The French Immortals Series — Complete
It gave anyone the right to object either in advance at the publishing of banns on three successive Sundays, or during the ceremony itself.
Successive English strongholds have fallen to outsiders.
As we saw in section 3.4, the Second Analogy of Experience, if true, guarantees both the objectivity and the universal diachronic or temporally successive causal necessitation of objects of experience and all of their parts under natural laws. Kant's Theory of Judgment
You will see that over successive years the relative distribution of these two species has been reversed.
Clifton FC top the division one table after an 11-1 hammering of Haxby Inn, the second successive 11-1 defeat for Haxby.
The officers were more or less able to dictate terms to successive governments.
It'successively builds a sequence of lobes.
One away defeat followed by two successive home draws. The Sun
He was successively senior lecturer and professor. Times, Sunday Times
The dynamic continuity of psychological time is both unity and diversity; but it is neither the abstract homogeneous unity of mathe - matical time nor the dust-like multiplicity of the externally related durationless instants; it is the mnemic continuity in which no sharp separation can be drawn between the successive phases, despite their qualitative heterogeneity. TIME
This is because cotton denim has residual shrinkage and will continue to shrink with each successive wash.
Many of Aeschylus' productions were connected ‘tetralogies’, comprising three tragedies presenting successive episodes of a single story (a ‘trilogy’) followed by a satyr-play based on part of the same or a related myth.
Successive governments have prattled on at length about the importance of this for our economy and for our businesses.
Five fireplaces, one above the other, rose up within the floorless keep, each successively smaller. SANDS OF TIME
In an attempt to solve the present case, and similar cases of successive causes of incapacity according to some legal principle, a number of arguments have been invoked.
When these pyramidal fibers are traced downward it is found that some two-thirds or more of them leave the pyramids in successive bundles, and decussate in the anterior median fissure, forming what is termed the pyramidal decussation. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
This was a great way to start a year that will hopefully see the boys win their third successive title.
Successive governments allowed this to happen. The Sun
Again, if the shortening of the central axis in the successive stages of hypogynous, perigynous, and epigynous flowers were an indication of preponderant reproduction and diminished vegetation, we should find everywhere some clear indications of this fact. Darwinism (1889)
The encore, slinking along on what Sun Ra might have called a Nubian wavelength, featured Mr. Zorn and Mr. Potter in successive solos, both sharply riveting, both exuding authority. NYT > Home Page
Leicester had failed to score in three successive matches but their pipe dream would become an astounding reality over the next four months. The Sun
Two months ago and half a world away, England won their fourth successive Test series.
In Tokyo share prices have plummeted for the sixth successive day.
For a mare to win 21 successive races is unbelievable. The Sun
The handling of relief and rehabilitation matters by the various successive Governments reveal a sadistic apathy as if some weird exclusivist outlook has gripped the State functioning both in the state as well as in the centre.
One could not possibly even write the number down in full, in our ordinary denary (power of ten) notation: it would be one followed by ten to the power of 123 successive zeros!
The tract is direct psalmody — the singing of successive verses of a psalm without refrain, and it is sung in alternation by two halves of the choir. What We Learn from Music
Even during the long Vietnam war, successive administrations were able to leave ‘their’ war out of transatlantic relationships.
Southampton should have registered a club record seventh successive League win but failed to turn their general superiority into goals.
The free market program implemented by successive governments has widened social inequality to an unprecedented degree.
Successive episodes and aspects of this tale are the subject of six essays. The Times Literary Supplement
Each successive phase of industrial change and development has been, in its turn, associated with new patterns of internal and international migration.
Week 848, rhopalic sentences, in which each successive word is one letter longer: So Joe, only you're having trouble spelling Murkowski. Report from Week 894
By marrying successively two second cousins, who were themselves heiresses of the same grocery business, he consolidated his fortune to the benefit of his collection, since both marriages were childless.
But he faces a third successive relegation dogfight. The Sun
Convergence is declared when the relative change in likelihood between successive iterations is less than a user-defined threshold.
At no successive instants, during a bright day, after the earth has once been warmed to the temperature of the night air of the previous night, do the same particles touch the surface; an unremitting renewal of the surface air-stratum is in continual progress as long as the heat of the soil or terrestrial surface is greater than that of the air in contact with it. Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford
Successive generations of foxes often inherit the territory on which they are born, which would tend to promote inbreeding.
Andrew Johnson was named the Crystal Palace Player of the Year for the second successive season last weekend to cap off a memorable campaign.
This year will bring his nineteenth successive jockeys' championship. Times, Sunday Times
The instructor for ECE 332 also reported course improvements, including breadboarded experimental projects, and successive yearly analysis of results.
Successive governments have overseen these changes prioritising cost over quality of justice and gaining increased control by means of appointment and sanction. Times, Sunday Times
But the greatest impact has come through global warming, with successive editions of the atlas showing shrinking ice fields and evaporating lakes.
Successive governments have done more than enough to confuse voluntary sector activity in recent decades. Times, Sunday Times
Could it perchance be that we aren't producing the right stuff, because we don't have enough of a rugby culture, because an embarrassingly small number of new recruits has been attracted by successive ‘strategies’ laid out by the blazers?
In 1960 he was recruited by the publishing house, where he became successively editorial director and managing director.
First, it is suggested that successive attempts to expound a Marxian theory of nature have see-sawed between naturalistic and social constructionist positions.
Tricky midfielder has been the driving force behind three successive wins. The Sun
On entering the diplomatic service of the Holy See he was appointed by Gregory XVI successively secular prelate (1830), referendary of the superior law court, assessor of the criminal tribunal, delegate to Orvieto, Viterbo, and Macerata, canon of St. Peter's (made deacon, 1840). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Over the next five decades, successive waves of immigration brought thousands of Afro-Caribbean residents and later, Hasidic Jews, into the neighborhood. Prospect Heights Edges Into Crown Heights
The solution, as perceived by successive US administrations, is not to retreat from trade liberalization but to incorporate a wider range of nations within the fold.
Successive rounds of screening bring into play more criteria until the short list is reached.
Successive governments ignored appeals for recognition until public opinion shamed them into acknowledgement. Times, Sunday Times
Davis had trailed 4-2 early in their match before winning six successive frames to lead 8-4 going into the final interval.
After successive _heaves_, the gunner halted the piece with the wheels touching the hurter -- the timber laid at the foot of the parapet to stop the wheels. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
- Successively loosen, saw-off and drive-in again the wedges, one after another. Chapter 8
It is more accurate to say that Houston is a partially planned city in which successive episodes of rapid expansion have outstripped whatever planning process might theretofore have been achieved.
But were he to introduce me to one, and give me an opportunity of shaking hands with him, of conversing with him, of observing his features, etc.; and were he then to introduce me to another, in like manner, with the privilege of shaking hands again with the first, before my introduction to the third; and were he thus to introduce me to them all successively, I might form _twenty-six acquaintances with one introduction_. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
His king offered him a reward, but instead of gold he asked for one grain of rice doubled for each successive square on a chessboard.
Successive tight close-ups of the star's rugged features reveal expressions that are less tensely pensive than muddled and confused.
Croatia scored a record-breaking summer, as sales of the kuna rose for the sixth successive year - trebling since 2010. The Sun
On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country, and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians, as the inhabitants of England were successively call Brittons and Englishmen. Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix
He proposed successively doubling the number of sides of a regular polygon inscribed in a circle so that the difference in areas would eventually become exhausted.
The team has had five successive victories.
Bury laid siege to the Kirby Lonsdale 22 for the first ten minutes and having won three successive line-outs should have kept the ball tight in the forwards and rucked and mauled their way to the line.
In legal terms, what John is wanting to do is to create a settlement, giving successive interests to members of his family: a life estate to his widow and a remainder in fee simple to his daughters.
In 1898, after laboriously isolating various substances by successive chemical reactions and crystallizations of the products, which they then tested for their ability to ionize air, the Curies announced the discovery of polonium, and then of radium salts weighing about 0.1 gram that had been derived from tons of uranium ore. Curie, Marie Sklodowska
All the successive central and state governments have completely neglected this forsaken and endangered community.
But it may be doubled and multipled in succession — that is to say, that in one act of deglutition we may experience successively a second and even a third sensation, each of which gradually becomes more weak, and which are described by the words after-taste, bouquet, or fragrance. Sing for your supper
Nature allows some persons to pass through all the successive levels of biological growth and thereby attain their biological needs.
Successive monarchs and other members of the royal family have played crucial political roles in our past. Times, Sunday Times
Yet Havana's overtures for friendlier relations have been repeatedly rebuffed by successive administrations in Washington.
Successive governments, however, have made it clear that any alteration of the state pension ages is unlikely.
There was the inevitable wobble by a side that has lost three successive semi-finals in the intervening period. Times, Sunday Times
Successive progeny from the same dam often shown heavy infections.
Successive governments have underfunded tertiary education for years.
This may be the only alternative, because there usually are no trees that survive to record successive fires as fire scars within the bole.
After incubation the agarose was washed successively with dioxane solution, dioxane, distilled water and ethanol.
The air of despair that pervaded the Greenyards last season has been supplanted by a buoyant optimism borne out of two successive wins by Melrose in the opening rounds of the BT Premiership.
This distance is termed a radius because for small heel angles, the locus of successive centers of buoyancy approximates a circular arc, with the transverse metacenter as its center.
Waves can bounce back and forth across the central region , becoming successively amplified — a cosmic echo chamber.
So City notch up their third successive scoring draw. The Sun
A sarcostyle may be said to be made up of successive portions, each of which is termed a sarcomere. IV. Myology. 2. Development of the Muscles
It is necessary to distinguish the policies of two successive governments.
Moreover, if birth rates were the whole story, then evangelical growth should have been visible between successive birth cohorts, not within them, but that is also not the case.37 Finally, the long-term inertia of demographic arithmetic should have continued to push up the evangelical share of the population for at least several decades more, even after the evangelical birth rate converged to the nonevangelical birth rate. American Grace
Distinctions can be made between reformist, unificatory, and secessionist types, between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary forms, between successive liberal and conservative variants, and between European and colonial manifestations of nationalism.
In this way the city grew much like the annular rings of a tree, with successive perimeters being added as population growth dictated.
Successive legislative steps have been taken since then to tighten the restrictions on access to tobacco by young children.
Overall there was a mood of resentment and disgust - the product of bitter experiences with successive Labor and Liberal governments over the last two decades.
Successive administrations have failed to solve the country's economic problems.
Now to lose a second successive decider was a bitter blow.
The powdered tuber was extracted successively with dichloromethane, methanol and water at room temperature. Chapter 7
The successive revisions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations are Helen M. Whall's subject.
This was just with a few days of successive fund-raisers.
Successive administrations have proven adept at devising strategies for isolating offending regimes.
Successive Westminster governments are responsible for the above problems. Times, Sunday Times
Modern warfare, modern weaponry is so hi-tech that if you try to run our defences on the basis of conscription, you have your professional soldiery permanently employed training successive cohorts of conscripts.
This is no mean achievement as it means achieving Guild membership consistently for five successive years.
There were more than 41,000 here to watch their side fail to win a first home game of the season for the eighth successive year. Times, Sunday Times
According to the ˜superstratist™ hypothesis, creolization occurs not when children acquire language from pidgins, but when successive waves of adult speakers try to learn the language of the dominant culture as a second language. Innateness and Language
Imputing an end to an action is of a fictional nature in the sense that it is not free from the subjective valuation that conditions the researcher's thematization of a certain subject matter out of “an infinite multiplicity of successively and coexistently emerging and disappearing events” [Weber 1904/1949, Asthmatic
The negatives are then exposed successively on film coated with sensitized pigmented gelatin - Cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
Toews witters on about the length of time it takes to resolve complaints under the current system, and he's absolutely right: successive governments 'intransigeance on the issue have ensured that complaints before the Canadian Human Rights Commission have proceeded at a glacial pace. Archive 2009-03-01
Political idealism is cruelly betrayed by successive waves of political oppression.
Successive governments attack our education system, which has been a constant political battleground. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, the phloem is neither ‘interxylary’ nor ‘included’ in dicotyledons with successive cambia.
The economy, ransacked by successive leaders, now teetered on the brink of collapse. Times, Sunday Times
For though the Jews have such a cabala (called gematry) as this which Mr. White describes; yet that cabala which is argued in this instance, and which our Saviour reproves in the pharisees by the name of tradition, is quite another thing, and among the Jewish writers known by the name of the "unwritten, or oral law;" which they say was delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai, and by him conveyed to Aaron and Joshua, and the elders, and successively delivered down from one age to another; and at last by Rabbi Jehudah compiled into one volume which they call Mishna, or deute'rosis. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10.
If this is true now, failure to win a third successive title could see the grumblings of Celtic fans over his apparent unwillingness to commit to a job turning into outright hostility.
He proceeds to draw each color-plate successively, at all times adhering closely to the red chalk outlines, filling in with tusche where full strength of the color is required and using lithographic crayon or the stipple process to reproduce the various gradations of this color in order to secure the full color value of each printing. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust. LAST CALL
The Reds soaked up immense pressure placed late on to win their second successive game.
In the latter, phloem is produced outwardly from each of the successive cambia and therefore lies between conjunctive tissue (which is not secondary xylem) and the secondary xylem produced by each of the cambia.
Dowden, in his introduction to the Lindores chartulary, gives details of these endowments, as well as of the privileges granted to the abbey by successive popes: these do not seem to have differed from those enjoyed by other great monasteries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The tension ratchets upwards a notch in each successive movement.
He scored three own goals in successive Championship matches. Times, Sunday Times
For the third successive year the centre had won the Gradam award for the best run centre.
My father had brought up a young person, who had been his footman, valet, secretary, and in short successively all in all. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
During the Victorian period, successive imperialist wars of plunder were eulogised by the military and political elite as a worthy social challenge and likened to a game played between great powers.
The earliest formed neurons make the innermost cortical layer, while neurons formed later make successive outer layers.
In the argillaceous fraction of a sedimentary series of petroliferous sandstones from the Sahara two successive diagenetic changes are considered.

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