It began raining steadily at around 11 a.m. and continued throughout the day.

It had begun to rain steadily and a complex rivulet of water was moving under the french window.

It was raining steadily at nine o'clock that Friday morning.

It was raining steadily and they made a dash for the porch.

The skies darkened and it rained steadily for more than an hour.

For three days it rained steadily, inhibiting what I already considered an impossible task.

It rained steadily for two hours and then stopped.

But one day it rained steadily for nearly twenty-four hours.

It has been raining steadily all day, so the garden won't need to be watered for a while.

The next day it rained too steadily to go out on the course.