Records tumbled during April, as the Dow steadily edged towards this new all-time high.

Gabriela Sabatini, the 17-year-old Argentine who is steadily edging toward the elite, is clearly among the first group.

The five-year survival rate -the percentage of patients living that long after detection - has been edging steadily up since 1960.

The fire edged steadily through the soggy mass below them and sent flaming streamers ahead along the pine needles imbedded in the vines.

Their shadows pushed against the edges of the twilight, growling, snarling, edging steadily closer.

We are not at the tipping point yet- but we are steadily edging towards it.

State pension costs as a percentage of gross domestic product are edging steadily upward.

Through that summer Henry had been edging steadily out over some mental abyss, walking on a bridge that had grown relentlessly more and more narrow.

He'd known Tanlyr Keep was edging steadily, if gradually, further and further ahead, but he hadn't expected the baron's squadron to getthat far out in front.

They edged steadily closer, circling slightly from side to side in the manner of wolves gathered about some cornered prey.