1.   As a result, the wealthy grow ever wealthier, while the poor grow ever poorer.

2.   In fact, under the last generation of rulers, the continent grew poorer with every passing decade.

3.   Over the decades, he has watched global trade expand while farmers in his country grow poorer.

4.   Perhaps the world is about to fall into a huge sinkhole, with the poor growing ever poorer, as the delegates from the impoverished lands held.

5.   The community grew poorer as the businesses fled to the suburbs, beyond the reach of inner-city residents.

6.   The poor seem almost inexorably to be growing poorer and the rich equally so are becoming richer.

7.   Pakistanis grew poorer, and most people remain illiterate.

8.   Most Russians are growing steadily poorer, trapped between rising consumer prices and meager wages, a newspaper said on Friday.

9.   Some farmers have grown poorer during his tenure, and the gap between rich and poor is widening, he acknowledged.

10.   The Grotto and other structures became shelter for the homeless as the neighborhood grew poorer.