Modifying Another Word

• then: Since then successive generations of school children have come to rely on this method of identification.

• yet: Yet successive Conservative and Labor governments have stripped power from local communities.

Modifies a noun

• defeat: For the first time in nearly a century, the Tories suffered their third successive defeat.

• generation: With each successive generation more people are becoming more severely depressed at a younger age.

• victory: Home skipper Darren Stride grabbed his first goal of the season to clinch a club record fifth successive Conference victory for Burton.

• approximation: Calculations in QED are carried out via " Feynman diagrams " which are successive approximations to QED.

• government: Successive governments then started arguing about who could manage them better.

• iteration: The SCF criterion is the change in energy in kcal/mol on two successive iterations.

Used with adjective complement

• define: Detailed topography is largely controlled by a succession of Tertiary basalt lava flows that define successive, large-scale steps within the landscape.

• provide: The British, therefore, provided successive Sultans with political and military support to keep them in position.