1.   A woman sitting near the front who had been listening with increasing irritation made her way to the back door, preparing to leave at the next stop.

2.   But in more recent comments, Wilson, Leetch and other players have expressed increasing irritation over the continuation of the investigation and the interest of the news media.

3.   Other reports by the Labor Department that have criticized labor abuses in Mexico have aroused increasing irritation here.

4.   That is a question I have been asking, with increasing irritation, for the last couple of weeks.

5.   Beijing is showing increasing irritation with the United States and this was demonstrated by an article in the China Daily Business Weekly on Sunday.