For the next few years, the bank's financial standing gradually deteriorated.

This was not to be, however, and the area gradually deteriorated.

Over the next few months she remained in hospital and her condition gradually deteriorated.

The building was altered in the 20th century to serve as a movie house, but it gradually deteriorated.

Ever since the 1960's, the optimism of Americans about the economy and their own circumstances has gradually deteriorated.

In December 1987, he suffered a stroke and gradually deteriorated.

Scott Street bridge had gradually deteriorated, and a public consultation was held in 1986, to determine its future.

However, the lack of maintenance in the twentieth century caused the building to gradually deteriorate.

The area remained generally peaceful, and the defenses gradually deteriorated.

The building gradually deteriorated through the centuries, to a degree that threatened its stability.