arithmetical progression

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Since 1920 Walgreen's growth has almost been an arithmetical progression.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."

From Time Magazine Archive

They increased in unpleasantness in arithmetical progression, until they culminated finally in a terrific encounter with the justly outraged Norris.

From A Prefect's Uncle by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Find four numbers in arithmetical progression, such that the sum of the first two is 1, and the sum of the last two is -19.

From A Review of Algebra by Rivenburg, Romeyn Henry

The spectral light by which we were aureoled increased in intensity, as by arithmetical progression, and I could now distinguish objects at a considerable distance before us.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri