Synonym: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial. Similar words: succession, ecological succession, success, successor, successful, unsuccessful, successfully, recessive. Meaning: [sək'sesɪv] adj. in regular succession without gaps.
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91. And Britain's military capability-marginally useful to us during the Gulf war-has vanished with successive budget cuts.
92. The first effectively eliminated the filing of successive habeas corpus claims.
93. Successive generations will probably have living standards lower than those enjoyed by their parents.
94. Also included is a plot of the time of peak of body temperature on successive days.
95. Natural selection is of traits favourable to the survival, not of individuals, but of successive generations.
96. Here, low winter rainfall and dry summers for two successive years have caused record low water levels in wells.
97. Successive Labour spokesmen tried to establish that the Thatcher Government did not have its heart in the health service.
98. It was a sound investment by Watford, because Wilkinson topped the club's scoring charts for three successive seasons.
99. Keegan keeps the team which produced a last-gasp win over Portsmouth last Saturday after five successive League defeats.
100. Successive governments have declared that science is intimately linked with national wealth.
101. Very small increases in quantity can then be introduced over successive days as long as the child is continuing to clear the plate.
102. Successive monarchs saw to its upkeep for its strategic value, until Lyme later developed into a trading port.
103. Successive quant ties of solvent are added to ensure the solvent level remains above the stationary phase.Sentencedict.com
104. Arsenal's second successive league defeat left them eight points behind the leaders and with a considerably inferior goal difference.
105. The victory capped a tough week for second seed Edberg, who reached the final by winning three successive five-set matches.
106. Option 4: The sum of pixels seen over a number of successive pictures with different exposures.
107. The food shortage is a result of three years of successive floods.
108. The surface could be built up to some extent by the application of thick and successive layers.
109. Derby, with six successive wins, could have both Blades and Goddard back after injury.
110. They suffered three successive defeats and it seemed their little party at the top was over.
111. Dendrochronologists measure and plot these rings and produce a diagram indicating the thickness of successive rings in an individual tree.
112. Acronyms are words formed from the initial letter or letters of successive parts of a compound term.
113. Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums.
114. Aged only 53, he was already the country's longest-serving Prime Minister[sentencedict.com], having led successive coalition governments since 1982.
115. But it does set up the preconditions for perpetuation of the lack of reading skills within successive generations.
116. Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students.
117. Successive governments, however, have made it clear that any alteration of the state pension ages is unlikely.
118. The Gills were staring at a second successive defeat in the final with just seven minutes of extra time remaining.
119. Each part is in principle divisible into smaller disjunct parts, and successive repetition of this process produces a branching hierarchy.
120. The following season, Nijinsky took the Gladness Stakes on his reappearance and then won five successive championship races.
More similar words: succession, ecological succession, success, successor, successful, unsuccessful, successfully, recessive, excessive, accessible, accessibly, inaccessible, accessibility, obsessive, expressive, regressive, possessive, aggressive, impressive, oppressive, succeed, progressive, succeed in, access, accessory, accessorize, cession, passive, massive, secession.