His resolve to keep away from her began to make less and less sense.
The terrigenous ingredients in the deposits become less and less abundant as one goes farther into the deep ocean and away from the continental margins.
On the other hand, the State, which could count upon the support of an ever-increasing number of prosperous and loyal subjects, sought to protect its own interests and showed itself less and less inclined to tolerate the extreme claims of the pope.
For many years the surface alluvial mining in South Island became less and less profitable.
All these measures could not alter the fact that the national economy became less and less equal to the tasks imposed upon it by the war.
