provincial governors
...that though the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decreased from 1620s till its end, the number of its provincial governors kept increasing, as the offices of a lost province could not be dissolved?
...that though <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Administrative_division_of_the_Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth" id="mwAwE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Administrative division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth">the territories</a> of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth" id="mwAwI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth</a> decreased from 1620s till <a href="./Partitions_of_Poland" id="mwAwM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Partitions of Poland">its end</a>, the number of its <b id="mwAwQ"><a class="mw-redirect" href="./Voivodes_of_the_Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth" id="mwAwU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Voivodes of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth">provincial governors</a></b> kept increasing, as the <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Offices_in_the_Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth" id="mwAwY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth">offices of a lost province</a> could not be dissolved?