If you often drink a lot and you do this for a long time, expect a slow but steady deterioration of your liver. (fitnessandpower.com)
For example, Reporters Without Borders radically dropped their «freedom of press» index of Ukraine after Yanukovich's elections, according to them this was the result of «the slow and steady deterioration in press freedom since Viktor Yanukovych's election as president in February» (politics.stackexchange.com)
Entropy is the inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society. (torranceartmuseum.com)