Increasingly the valuing of nature became an aspect of Western culture.

The number of death sentences carried out since the consideration of the initial periodic report had steadily decreased.

Financial resources of the Centre operations have been dwindling steadily over the years.

Organizations began to adopt computerized information systems, and the demand for software development grew significantly.

Recent trends Car travel increased steadily throughout the twentieth century, but trends since 2000 have been more complex.

The support of donor countries has been steadily increasing, reflecting growing confidence in effective programme delivery.

Since its introduction, that concept has engendered progressively greater interest from Member States, including my own country.

Despite the air of impending crisis preceding World War I, the city grew constantly until 1914.

The population growth came to a sharp end in 1975 and the city has since grown very little.

The number of countries that have created online databases and websites listing volunteer opportunities is growing steadily.

Between 1993 and 2001, this ratio rose steadily in rural areas and fell in urban areas.

The number of the new working poor rose steadily, as the informal sector was increasingly deprived of economic growth opportunities.

I slept late.

Within a year, the collection had grown significantly and display cases were installed in a small house on the Chiclín estate.

History The number of farms had decreased steadily in West Germany, from 1.6 million in 1950 to 630,000 in 1990.

Success in the 1990s built steadily on improving performance begun in the 1980s.

We are moving steadily to strengthen good governance through strong democratic institutions, establish the rule of law and eliminate intolerance in our society.

But hey, they grow back.

I slept only two hours.

I sleep the sleep of the dead.

Pastoralism is steadily losing its margin of manoeuvre, as rangelands are being lost at an alarming rate.

It won t be nice if something bad happens to it and causes Aghyad great disappointment.

Fiscal consolidation affects an estimated 80 of developing country citizens, and its impact is expected to intensify steadily through 2015.

Development in the solar water heating sector progressed steadily throughout the 1990s and growth rates have averaged 20 per year since 1999.

However, the gulf between the world's rich and poor grew wider, and the majority of the global population remained in the poor side of the divide.

These troops were steadily pushed back, but the Australians brought forward elite veteran Second Australian Imperial Force units that the Japanese had not expected.

Agriculture grew at better than eight percent.

The town grew into a city.

Tel Aviv thus grew to .

The big, cosmopolitan cities of Beijing and Shanghai have grown dramatically, but the bulk of the urban migration has been to cookie cutter small and medium size industrial towns that have mushroomed over the last decade.

I slept soon when I came home.

As a result of his policies, Colombia s diplomatic stature has grown.

After approximately one week, colonies of cells grew out.

Viruses had been grown only in plants and animals.

She grew up in Sunnyvale, California.

Shannon grew up in Rolling Hills, California.

There had been steady progress in the utilization of the conference facilities in Nairobi.

The space is recursively subdivided into quadrants until each subdivision contains 0 or 1 bodies (some regions do not have bodies in all of their quadrants).

The bed I slept in last night wasn't very comfortable.

My hair hasn t started to grow back yet but my eyebrows and eyelashes have!

I guess he is busy doing something.

Christianity grew rapidly in Sicily during the next two centuries.

In this same year, tourism grew 4.5 worldwide.

The Tribunal continues to make steady progress in apprehending fugitives.

For the last 1000 years, western and highland regions have been growing significantly drier, but in the past few decades, severe drought has become much more frequent.