And it has become important, too, for reasons that have nothing to do with her.

They had become more important to her than anything else.

Our school district has become more important to us than the house.

Before I would just give up school and work, but getting my degree has become important to me.

This in itself means that it has become more important to understand what their lives mean to them.

In the last decade, environmental problems have become more important.

"Was there something or someone else who became more important?"

Here the question of development aid has become more important than ever.

But in this television age, sports have become ever more important.

It was becoming very important for him to think so.