Assertion: siamese cat | /r/CapableOf | increase in popularity
Facets:
value: greatly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In the 1950s–1960s, as the Siamese was increasing in popularity, many breeders and cat show judges began to favor the more slender look.
text: There was so much interest created by this display, the Siamese cat increased in popularity.
text: As the Siamese increased greatly in popularity in the 1950s and 60s, many breeders and cat-show judges began to show a preference for the more slender look.
text: In the 1950s - 1960s, as the Siamese was increasing in popularity, many breeders and cat show judges began to favor the more slender look and as a result of generations of selective breeding, created increasingly long, fine-boned, narrow-headed cats; eventually the modern show Siamese was bred to be extremely elongated, with thin, tubular bodies, long, slender legs, a very long, very thin tail that tapers gradually into a point and long, narrow, wedge-shaped heads topped by extremely large, wide-set ears.