English-Portuguese translations for in a row

• consecutivamente
  Gostaria, uma vez mais, de deixar claro que o relatório deste ano do Tribunal de Contas é o sexto relatório que, consecutivamente, não tem resultados globais positivos. I would like to make it clear once again that this year's report from the Court of Auditors is the sixteenth in a row which does not have positive overall results.
• em sequência
• seguido
  Alguém aqui quer apostar comigo que não serão doze anos seguidos, mas talvez treze ou até mesmo catorze? Does anybody here want to have a bet with me that it will not be 12 years in a row, or perhaps 13 or 14?
  Senhor Presidente, em primeiro lugar, quero felicitá-lo por estar a presidir à Mesa dois dias seguidos, o que deve ser um recorde. Mr President, firstly, I wish to congratulate you on being in the Chair two days in a row, which must be a record.
  Vai tornar-se mais difícil organizar viagens de autocarro e camioneta nos mesmos moldes do presente, em que os condutores estão disponíveis durante mais de seis dias seguidos. It will become more difficult to organise bus and coach journeys in the same way as at present, when drivers may make themselves available for more than six days in a row.
• sucessivamente
• um atrás do outro

Definition of in a row

• successively, one after the other
• Placed in a straight line

Examples

• After making losses four years in a row, the manager knew she had to sack someone.
• Bottles of every type of alcohol they had were lined up in a row behind the bar.

Related words

• narrow-minded have a narrow outlook
• a drowning man will clutch at a straw
• by a narrow margin
• take up arms against a sea of sorrows
• throw a wrench into the works
• throw somebody a line
• throw a spanner in the works
• thrown a spanner in the works of
• throw somebody a lifeline