I read "next" as referring to the adjacent example, not the temporally later one. So "each one more ___ than its neighbour". Of course, it's impossible mathema

I read "next" as referring to the adjacent example, not the temporally later one. So "each one more ___ than its neighbour". Of course, it's impossible mathematically for each element to be bigger than all its neighbours, for N > 1, but it's OK as a figure of speech.