Assertion: thylacine | /r/CapableOf | become rare
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: before british settlement of the continent
type: TEMPORAL
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: It is highly probable that as the thylacine became increasingly rare at the beginning of the 20th century, there were behavioural changes within the wild population to reflect this compromised status.
text: The Thylacine had become extremely rare or extinct on the Australian mainland before British settlement of the continent, but it also survived on the island of Tasmania, along with other species such as the Tasmanian devil.
text: The thylacine had become very rare or extinct on the Australian mainland prior to European settlement of the continent, but survived on the island of Tasmania until the 1930s.