in a row
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edit- successively, one after the other, in succession; together.
- Synonyms: together, on the trot, on the spin, on the bounce
- After making losses four years in a row, the manager knew she had to sack someone.
- 2010, someone quoted in W. Gordon Lawrence's The Creativity of Social Dreaming, page 88:
- I dreamt of my dead husband, who asked me for a cozonac, adding, 'It's important that you prepare it yourself.' I had this dream three nights in a row until I finally baked it.
- 2010, Kenneth Anderson, How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol, page 59:
- If you choose to drink again the best way to avoid another instance of withdrawal is to avoid drinking two days in a row.
- 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport[1]:
- Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel.
- Placed in a straight line.
- Bottles of every type of alcohol they had were lined up in a row behind the bar.
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