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  • She has arthritis and after working as a nurse for 20 years, is living on a fixed income and needs the food bank, while being unable to afford her constantly-increasing rent.

    Conflict: care, disability and bullies Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • His constantly-increasing influence with her had already brought him into contact with the most influential persons of that epoch.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • The expense of keeping up large places becomes heavier every year, owing to the constantly-increasing rates of wages, etc., and in some cases imposes a grievous burden, eating heavily into income and leaving men with thousands of acres very poor balances at their bankers to meet the Christmas bills.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • _ -- The constantly-increasing hostility between the President and Congress came to an issue when the former attempted to remove Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War.

    A Brief History of the United States

  • Oriskany; the British army was hemmed in by a constantly-increasing force of Americans, and was able to drag along only a mile a day;

    American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

  • Stark had defeated and captured a strong detachment at Bennington, and Herkimer had won the bloody battle of Oriskany; the British army was hemmed in by a constantly-increasing force of Americans, and was able to drag along only a mile a day;

    American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913

  • The question whether he should go to Italy or to France was soon decided for him, for the suppressed but constantly-increasing commotion which had agitated the former country ever since the July revolution at last vented itself in a series of insurrections.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Governor's residence was conscripted and made use of, additionally to the "Staat Huys," for the accommodation of the constantly-increasing number of culprits.

    Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887

  • What the effect of a constantly-increasing prosperity may be on future generations, no one can predict.

    The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

  • But, if all of them are refused or neglected, we must make up our minds to continue to suffer with constantly-increasing severity for an indefinite term; with all the risks of political agitation; while no longer able to attribute our distress to a sudden and unforeseen cause, and still less to any lack of the Divine bounty.

    The Cotton of Various Climes 1862

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