1.   Breathing became more difficult as we got higher up the mountain.

2.   The pitch of politicians is more strident, the gauntlet is thrown down more quickly, the stakes get higher faster.

3.   When you tighten guitar strings, the note gets higher.

4.   The risk gets higher with each pregnancy.

5.   Chief Executive says all they could do was to stand and watch the water getting higher.

6.   An athlete gets higher than a normal person.

7.   And as any major tournament moves on, the pressure mounts and the scores get higher.

8.   And as Les Bleus kept advancing and the stakes got higher and his mates stopped scoring, Barthez simply loomed larger.

9.   And the level of competition just keeps getting higher.

10.   And the stakes keep getting higher.