The gap in total numbers, though, narrows steadily as pay decreases.

So the camera's view is steadily narrowing and the smaller screen image still fills the whole frame size of the camera filmstock.

There's the illusion of more choices out there for girls, but if you look around, you'll see their choices are steadily narrowing.

The corridor mounted steeply ahead of him, narrowing steadily.

Over the past three decades, the gaps narrowed steadily from the 1970s through the late 1980s but then leveled out through 1999.

Old distinctions in status between professional court painters and amateur scholar-artists had been steadily narrowing.

The court has continued to uphold the doctrine but also steadily narrowed the grounds on which fighting words are held to apply.

It narrowed steadily, until it disappeared in a dark crevice too small for Swiftmud to enter.

The overall surplus narrowed steadily in 1989, to $56.98 billion from $79.63 billion a year earlier.

But measures of economic strength should be dynamic, and Japan has been steadily narrowing the gap with the United States.