The company, which has 12,500 employees, has had a steady deterioration in its financial situation.

Now they will spend the next decade coming to terms with the steady and inevitable deterioration of their physical abilities.

Industry struggled and there was a steady deterioration in the trade balance.

He read history and achieved a steady deterioration in each year's performance.

It is becoming clear that political freedom will not address Africa's steady deterioration.

There's a steady deterioration in condition, even when it's not being used.

But, towards the end, there had been a steady deterioration - in several ways.

This condition persisted, with steady deterioration, throughout the spring and into the summer of 1969.

Nothing has been sadder than the steady deterioration of the state hospital system since the mid-1970's.

This industrialisation also led to a steady deterioration in water quality during the 19th century and into the 20th.