11.   Today, hospital officials say her condition is improving, but she remains seriously ill.

12.   And he said he was confident that conditions were improving.

13.   He says he was close to death at the weekend but his condition has improved a little.

14.   But while his condition has improved the couple are still face eviction from their home near Oxford.

15.   He claimed one prisoner who suffered a fractured skull may have to undergo neuro-surgery if his condition did not improve.

16.   She had been resuscitated and her condition improved.

17.   These grievances were to find expression in the strike wave that occurred once economic conditions improved.

18.   Although crop conditions improved, crop development was slowed by cool weather.

19.   And if conditions improve enough, Russia may grow irresistible to foreign car makers which have viewed it until now as too wild a place for large-scale direct investment.

20.   And since many companies are still shedding workers, it is unlikely employment conditions will improve quickly, economists said.