What is "consecutive"

Usage examples of "consecutive".

He also sang as basso of the Temple Emanuel from 1874 to 1888, thirteen consecutive years, and was the basso profundo of that celebrated male quartette, The Amphions, composed of Joseph Maguire, H.

Consecutive chords do not always share notes, so shared notes cannot always be used as a basis for determining where to locate chords relative to each other in 3D space.

For there and then, for several consecutive years, Moby Dick had been periodically descried, lingering in those waters for awhile, as the sun, in its annual round, loiters for a predicted interval in any one sign of the Zodiac.

It may be thought that the planes which returned were suffering from mechanical stress after two previous days of operations, but the nine other groups flying to Hannover, which were also on their third consecutive day of flying, suffered only half the proportion of abortive sorties as the Hamburg-bound groups.

November Joel pled guilty to the murder of Iris Sanchez in Queens, then, just days later, entered guilty pleas in Brooklyn and received maximum consecutive sentences for the killings of Lorraine Orvieto, Mary Ann Holloman, and the still unidentified third woman, all of whom had been found stuffed into steel drums over a threemonth period in 1992.

Hazel the one consecutive sentence that Portunus had managed to enunciate.

Craps table at the Flamingo for a while, had walked across the street to listen for patterns in the ringing and clattering of the slots at Caesars Palace, and then had written down a hundred consecutive numbers that came up on a Roulette wheel at the Mirage.

He is, in effect, the ruler of Unis but he cannot serve two consecutive terms.

The baptisms of Martin, Cecilia, and Bianca, son and daughters of Sylvanus and Anne Stone, were to be discovered registered in Kensington in the three consecutive years following, as though some single-minded person had been connected with their births.

I give below the amount of grain and flour in bushels received into Buffalo for transit in the month of October during four consecutive years:-- October, 1858 4,429,055 bushels.

Some unions were so close that, for instance, the Vandals, after part of their confederation had left for the Rhine, and thence went over to Spain and Africa, respected for forty consecutive years the landmarks and the abandoned villages of their confederates, and did not take possession of them until they had ascertained through envoys that their confederates did not intend to return.

As you well know, I cannot condone all these consecutive consulships, nor some of your more wolfy friends.

The first, that the emergency which faced the State and resulted in my being allowed the unprecedented honor of so many consecutive consulships is now conclusively, finally, positively over.

When we see the formations tabulated in written works, or when we follow them in nature, it is difficult to avoid believing that they are closely consecutive.

And if in each separate territory, hardly any idea can be formed of the length of time which has elapsed between the consecutive formations, we may infer that this could nowhere be ascertained.