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Some patients gradually develop a tolerance for the drug and need to be given a larger dose.
The forces are ramped down gradually to ensure that element removal has a smooth effect on the model.
Their actions also had the effect of diluting Gaelic culture, gradually replacing it with a lowlands one.
Most contemporary scientists thought that the Earth had been gradually cooling down since its birth as a molten globe.
They gradually acquire more white in subsequent seasons until they reach maturity after five years.
This species moults gradually beginning in March or April until September or October each year.
The upper canines are relatively short and grow sideways early in life, though gradually curve upwards.
Mexico City was erected on top of the ruins and, over the ensuing centuries, most of Lake Texcoco has gradually been drained.
These notes continue in circulation and are gradually being replaced by the 2007 series.
Some of the Welsh gentry continued to patronise bards, but this practice was gradually dying out.
What had been an orderly, nondrunken set of blocks became gradually disorderly, openly police-defying.
The truth of the tusk's origin developed gradually during the Age of Exploration, as explorers and naturalists began to visit regions themselves.
However, Llywelyn's territorial ambitions gradually made him unpopular with some minor Welsh leaders, particularly the princes of south Wales.
Using the castles that remained in English control, he gradually began to retake Wales while cutting off trade and the supply of weapons.
The Labour Party ruled that Militant was ineligible for affiliation with the Labour Party, and the party gradually expelled Militant supporters.
The Merovingian Franks gradually gained control of the region during the 5th century, under Clovis.
In 1972 Cambrian was incorporated into the new British Air Services group and gradually lost more and more of its independence.
The water thus gradually deposits the sediment as it runs, creating an alluvial plain.
The myth, like so many others, may be a folk memory of gradually rising sea levels at the end of the ice age.
The term has gradually fallen out of favor because in some parts of the world, the Chalcolithic and Neolithic are coterminous at both ends.
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At first, the copper itself was valued, but gradually the shape and look of the copper became more important.
The site of the city is one of the few of Roman Britain that remains free from later building and it is gradually being excavated.
Over the next few centuries, the Angles, Saxons and others gradually conquered and settled in eastern and southern Britain.
The Woodland Trust is gradually restoring the native broadleave woodland character of the plantation areas.
English gradually began to replace Welsh as the community language, as shown by the decline of the Welsh language press in the town.
The concept of ahimsa grew gradually within Hinduism, one of the signs being the discouragement of ritual animal sacrifice.
Under Mexican rule, the mission system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized.
In this pit, a viscous secretion is exuded, entering the groove and hardening gradually upon contact with sea water.
Between 1856 and 1866 the old scales were gradually removed and replaced with ones made by Messrs.
Since World War II, smoking has gradually become less frequent on screen as the obvious health hazards of smoking have become more widely known.
Strongly Republican, the Welsh gradually assimilated into the larger society without totally abandoning their own ethnic cultural patterns.
This decline continued into the 19th century, as English gradually became the primary language spoken on the Isle of Man.
Business signage in Manx is gradually being introduced but is not mandated by law.
Other books were held in high esteem but were gradually relegated to the status of New Testament apocrypha.
He believed myths began as allegorical descriptions of nature and gradually came to be interpreted literally.
According to these thinkers, the ancients worshiped natural phenomena, such as fire and air, gradually deifying them.
According to Tylor, human thought evolved through stages, starting with mythological ideas and gradually progressing to scientific ideas.
With the death of the last native prince of Wales in 1282 the tradition gradually disappears.
Davies was a barrister and a keen book collector who acquired the manuscripts gradually from a number of sources.
His work gradually moved towards surrealism after exposure to the work of Picasso and Kandinsky.
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At first the wares used European shapes and mostly Chinese decoration, as the Chinese had done, but gradually original Japanese styles developed.
It was increasingly sung at patriotic gatherings and gradually it developed into a national anthem.
Fresh water floats on top of the seawater in a layer that gradually thins as it moves seaward.
Water desalination plants are gradually being constructed to deal with recent years of prolonged drought.
France has also gradually but fully reintegrated into NATO and has since participated in most NATO sponsored wars.
Austrasia gradually lost its territorial character after the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire in the second half of the 9th century.
This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour.
In the late Middle Ages, the dike system was gradually strengthened and flooding diminished.
During the late Miocene the Paratethys gradually disappeared, and became an isolated inland sea.
Chicks are fed mainly by their parents for about six weeks but gradually begin to feed themselves over time.
From the 17th century onward, it was gradually integrated into the Dutch language area.
But this fly-on-the-wall study of teenage outsiderdom gradually takes on darker overtones.
Virtually unknown in Europe in 1973, by the end of the decade they were gradually replacing saloons as the mainstay of this sector.
The jacks shall be released gradually whilst the GBS is ballasted to ensure that the GBS does not sway too much from target location.
From a purely transit port Zeebrugge has gradually evolved into a centre for European distribution.
The town has gradually extended up the river valley, encompassing several villages in doing so.
It is likely that, with the merger, the latter disappears gradually in favour of Cherbourgeois.
Originally a river valley, the Solent has gradually widened and deepened over many thousands of years.
In some cases, such lakes gradually evaporated during the warming period after the Quaternary ice age.
As such, the Carolingian Empire gradually came to be seen in the West as a continuation of the ancient Roman Empire.
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As more and more British ships entered the battle, the ships of the allied centre and rear were gradually overwhelmed.
On 18 October, the German XIII Corps arrived, reinforced the VII Corps and gradually forced the British II Corps to a halt.
It gradually phased out its direct competitor the Nobel mine on the insistence of admiral Fyodor Litke.
Also, overtreated patients become more insulin-resistant, and this gradually reverses as insulin doses are reduced.
The land slopes upwards gradually from south to north towards the top of the Downs.
Spanish is currently the Pac Man of the foreign language field, gradually swallowing up all other languages.
The hulls were generally wooden, although iron, steel and composite hulls gradually overtook them.
From the 1930s until the end of the 20th century, North Dakota's population gradually declined, interrupted by a couple of brief increases.
The main rainy season begins in early May in Okinawa, and the rain front gradually moves north until reaching Hokkaido in late July.
Cape Verde gradually recovered as an important commercial center and stopover for shipping routes.
Like Caligula, Nero seemed to grow gradually more insane as his reign progressed.
During the Dark Ages in Europe, foxes were considered secondary quarries, but gradually grew in importance.
Over the course of a few weeks their legs develop and their tail gradually gets reabsorbed.
Thus it was from Edessa that a missionary movement began which gradually spread throughout Mesopotamia, Persia, Central Asia and China.
His circulating charity schools and then his Sunday schools gradually made the North a new country.
Lyrical poets often took their subjects from myth, but their treatment became gradually less narrative and more allusive.
Water and other volatiles can more easily and gradually escape from mafic lava.
At the end of the 17th century the Habsburgs won decisive battles against the Ottomans, and most of the plain gradually came under Habsburg rule.
The juveniles remain in shallower waters, gradually migrating to greater depths with age.
Researchers have recently discovered a turtle's organs do not gradually break down or become less efficient over time, unlike most other animals.
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Most human biological variation is clinally distributed and blends gradually from one area to the next.
Some attempts were made to improve it in the 1920s, but the last commercial traffic used it in 1934, and it gradually became derelict after that.
The rise of Macedon gradually ousted the remnants of Phoenicia's former dominance over the Eastern Mediterranean trade routes.
Henry gradually rebuilt his power base in the Cotentin and allied himself with William against Robert.
The situation gradually led to the consolidation of central authority and the emergence of the nation state.
The use of the national or feudal levy was gradually replaced by paid troops of domestic retinues or foreign mercenaries.
It was in Valois France, under the heavy demands of the Hundred Years' War, that the armed forces gradually assumed a permanent nature.
Then the earth in the boats was gradually taken away so that the boats floated much higher and the oxen were lifted off the river bottom.
Wessex gradually expanded westwards into Brythonic Dorset and Somerset in the seventh century.
On subsequent peribothra further tidal interactions take place, gradually causing the orbit to decay.
Their use gradually trailed off after World War II, partially because of the investments in airports during the war.
It was the name of this nation, not a race, that gradually came into general use.
Above the waterline, the hull gradually narrows to compensate for the weight of the guns and to make boarding more difficult.
Eventually the exposed wooden structure was weakened and gradually collapsed.
By devious means, Uriah Heep gradually gains a complete ascendancy over the aging and alcoholic Wickfield, to Agnes's great sorrow.
All young crocodiles hunt mostly invertebrates and small fish, gradually moving on to larger prey.
Though field work gradually made Simpson's classification outdated, it remains the closest thing to an official classification of mammals.
Over the years, as the shoals gradually shift, the erosion may be redirected to attack different parts of the shore.
Battery technology is gradually improving making this form of transportation more practical.
The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased out as the new models were phased in.
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By 1900 use of the bathing facilities was declining, and the second pier gradually became derelict.
There is one particularly large glade which is gradually recovering from the storms.
From that early beginning, the railway has been gradually extended from Havenstreet towards Ryde.
Signs also change their meanings over time, as the conventions governing their usage gradually change.
The gradually acquired political connotations are newer and, to a large extent, due to oscillating political circumstances.
The feudal system was gradually abolished in the late 18th century, starting with the crown lands in 1765 and later the estates of the nobility.
Around this fort, a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a state of great strategic value.
The original singular pronoun du gradually fell out of use during the Middle Dutch period.
Hence it came to pass that gradually and by corruption the name Gepidae was coined for them by way of reproach.
As part of this process, the Tsarist administration in Bessarabia gradually removed the Romanian language from official and religious use.
To that end, they had gradually built up an oppidum, or fortified town, at Vesontio.
Every Emperor of Rome adopted his name, Caesar Augustus, which gradually lost its character as a name and eventually became a title.
Meanwhile, the Franks were gradually infiltrating and assuming power in this domain.
The Romans gradually tightened their grip around Decebalus' stronghold in Sarmizegetusa Regia, which they finally took and destroyed.
Since the 1990s, polls show that people in Sweden have gradually become more positive to asylum refugees.
Noble estates, on the other hand, gradually came to descend by primogeniture in much of western Europe aside from Germany.
In general, the terminology of a divided Gothic people disappeared gradually after they entered the Roman Empire.
Distinct titulature for Germany, Italy and Burgundy, which traditionally had their own courts, laws, and chanceries, gradually dropped from use.
It gradually replaced Dutch and Almains, the latter becoming mostly obsolete by the early 18th century.
During the 19th and 20th centuries these dialects have partly and gradually been replaced by today's Standard German.
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At this time, the eight cantons gradually increased their influence on neighbouring cities and regions through additional alliances.
The first is the case of the Latin language and culture, that were gradually adopted by most of the subjugated people.
For the most part, all of the terms discriminating between different Gothic tribes gradually disappeared after they moved into the Roman Empire.
Moscow gradually absorbed the surrounding principalities, including formerly strong rivals such as Tver and Novgorod.
It remained in use throughout the European Middle Ages, gradually disappearing in the course of the 16th century.
It had a short portion of the body which was first made to slide on the furrow bottom and gradually developed into a horizontal body.
By the 8th century it had ceased to be the tribes' mainstream belief as the tribal rulers gradually came to adopt Nicene orthodoxy.
Arabic paganism gradually disappeared during Muhammad's era through Islamization.
As with all other cultures, it has evolved and gradually changed over time.
They were only gradually allowed in other cities, so as to prevent the spread of alien ideas to the general population.
With gold in short supply, the slave trade gradually took on greater urgency.
The Portuguese founded a fort at the port city of Colombo in 1517 and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas and inland.
The Supreme Tribunal gradually assumed some of the powers of the Council of Ten.
The highlands extend northwards into Verapaz, and gradually descend to the east.
Their role in providing silver was gradually surpassed by the Spanish, while even the Dutch challenged them for control of this trade.
Over the course of the following four to eight weeks, the fleet would gradually proceed to Taiping anchorage in Changle, Fujian.
The Tsardom of Russia gradually chipped away at the autonomy of the Kalmyk Khanate.
To the west of the highlands, the increasingly arid terrain gradually slopes down to the Mozambique Channel and mangrove swamps along the coast.
Smokers were required to register for licenses for gradually reducing rations of the drug.
These clusters gradually disperse, and the stars join the population of the Milky Way.
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With all of Portugal now under the control of Afonso III of Portugal, religious, cultural and ethnic groups became gradually homogenized.
There, the slaves gradually assimilated in the rural areas, particularly on the Unguja and Pemba islands.
Collins says this might be because they migrated back to north Africa or gradually assimilated.
It was gradually conquered by the Crown of Castile and dissolved with the 1491 Treaty of Granada, ending the Granada War.
Skirmishes along the border of Granada occurred frequently and territory was gradually lost to Castile.
For much of the week, interaction between the Portuguese and the Tupiniquim gradually increases.
Argentines, Brazilians and Europeans are gradually choosing Punta del Este as their permanent residence.
The UK gradually depopulated the archipelago's indigenous population and leased its biggest island, Diego Garcia, to the United States.
Mauritian investors are gradually entering African markets, notably Madagascar, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
In 1517, the Portuguese built a fort at the port city of Colombo and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas.
In the eighteenth century, Ayutthaya gradually lost control over its provinces.
The seeds are dried gradually in the sun over a period of six to eight weeks.
The flower buds initially have a pale hue, gradually turn green, then transition to a bright red when ready for harvest.
Animal farming is of secondary importance, but its role is gradually increasing.
The government shall also in accordance with law, gradually institute a compulsory education system.
In 2010, the economic reform plan was approved by parliament to cut subsidies gradually and replace them with targeted social assistance.
Analysis of non-atretic quiescent and growing follicle numbers revealed that immature follicles were gradually lost after chemotherapy.
By the 13th century it was recorded that Kolzum was in ruins as was Suez which had gradually replaced the former as a population center.
Some traditions, however, are changing or gradually being forgotten due to modernization.
Over the next centuries Mexican indigenous cultures were gradually subjected to Spanish colonial rule.
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Spain continued to dispute the area, though the United States gradually increased the area it occupied.
The Spaniards gradually advanced along the causeways, though without allies.
After independence, preferences gradually shifted toward neoclassical and Art Nouveau styles.
The cultural geography of colonial Virginia gradually evolved, with a variety of settlement and jurisdiction models experimented with.
During the following decades, they gradually extended their sway throughout the present state of Baja California Sur.
Hudson is thought to have spent many years at sea, beginning as a cabin boy and gradually working his way up to ship's captain.
Without resources to consolidate its position, New Sweden was gradually absorbed by New Holland and later in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
In the wild, old polar bears eventually become too weak to catch food, and gradually starve to death.
Autumn is from March to May, with mostly settled weather, as summer patterns gradually take on the shape of winter patterns.
The Mishars had arrived during the period of the Golden Horde and gradually assimilated the resident Finnic Mordvins and Burtas.
These organisations gradually lost their autonomy, and were abolished by Catherine II by the late 18th century.
From their new center along the middle Lena they gradually expanded northeast and west beyond the Lena basin towards the Arctic Ocean.
Datsans were gradually closed down and the activity of the clergy was curtailed.
After the fall of the Qing dynasty, the influence of the octagonal drum gradually reduced.
During the 1980s, health statistics, including life expectancy and causes of mortality, were gradually made available to the outside world.
Deng Xiaoping outmaneuvered Mao's anointed successor chairman Hua Guofeng, and gradually emerged as the de facto leader over the next few years.
The front teeth are then gradually lost as sheep age, making it harder for them to feed and hindering the health and productivity of the animal.
Following a long period of military setbacks against European powers, the Ottoman Empire gradually declined into the late nineteenth century.
Its form, topped by a likeness of the Doge's hat, became gradually standardized, and was then fixed by local law.
The area known as Manchuria in northeastern China was gradually conquered by the Jurchen chieftain Nurhaci.
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This simply indicates that a word gradually enters a person's vocabulary over a period of time as more aspects of word knowledge are learnt.
It has been documented from the 8th century until the 12th century, when it gradually evolved into Middle Low German.
After the conquest they gradually lost their authority, and became advisers and assistants to the Lord Chancellor.
This was driven in part by the gradually increasing hiring of Indians in the civil services.
Since 2007, ASEAN countries have gradually lowered their import duties to member nations.
The area north of the Thames gradually expanded to include East Ham, Stratford, West Ham and Plaistow as more land was built upon.
He believed the opinions of the people would gradually change and the voluntary removal of images would follow.
It was only after the fifth century that such gradually developed, mostly in accordance with the ancient divisions of the Roman Empire.
Despite his generally poor health, his intellectual grasp and wide knowledge and research gradually made him famous as a jurist and historian.
The amounts with which are decided gradually change based on the importance as well as efficiencies and inefficiencies of agencies or priorities.
The larger portion of the state is on the west of this and gradually slopes toward Lake Michigan.
Following the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century, a system of royal central justice gradually took shape.
During the 14th century the royal courts gradually allowed actions which did not involve breaches of the King's Peace.
The sepoys also gradually became dissatisfied with various other aspects of army life.
We watched the ship gradually fade from view as it sailed away.
The Delhi Sultanate gradually annexed the whole of Bengal over the next century.
Along the coast the mountains gradually merge with the shore.
Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse.
At noon the barograph curve turned up and the wind moderated, the sky gradually clearing.
Suddenly it is stiller, except for a belchy groan. Then a high whiny sound, gradually diminishing, a sort of shush, and finally all is quiet.
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These relatively inert materials simply collect within the biomass and can sometimes gradually become bioconcretions.
Elytra piceous, gradually shaded into a castaneous margin, irregularly and minutely punctured, covered with ochraceous pubescence.
As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened.
Hodges has made a great fool of himself, by getting gradually cockier and cockier.
Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.
Some have small oriel windows in oval shapes resting on corbeled brickwork, laid in rows that gradually project from the facade.
When ready to serve, beat the eggs and combine with soup gradually until you have about a cupsworth.
The dalesmen's sport, fox-hunting on the fells, is gradually returning after its 11-months' foot-and-mouth ban.
The southern end of the Rockies plunges gradually along its sharp frontal downflex and passes into the Anton Chico monocline.
He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged.
Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
The pattern of gradually increasing severity fits with the general image of an escalatory conflict model.
After the completion of copulation, the number of eupyrene sperm bundles in a spermatophore gradually decreased.
In the meantime the Taiwan governors-general were gradually brought under closer supervision of the home government in Tokyo.
A real acuerdo gradually came to have the force of law in the form of administrative ordinances embracing a wide range of subjects.
In the period from the 8th to the 12th century, Old English gradually transformed through language contact into Middle English.
Vendace have struggled in recent years with naturally occurring algae becoming a threat and the lakes gradually getting warmer.
It began life as an international organisation and gradually developed into a confederation of states.
It began to be adopted by the ruling elite as they gradually abandoned French.
The percent mammoth contribution to the genome would be gradually increased on each hybrid embryo produced in vitro.
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Neolithic pastoralists who controlled large herds gradually acquired more livestock, and this made economic inequalities more pronounced.
The rats gradually became weak and asthenia, and showed mucous hypersecretion, anorexia, body weight reduction, hydrouria, diarrhea.
Along with vaults, they gradually replaced the traditional post and lintel construction which makes use of the column and architrave.
In the following years, Constantine gradually consolidated his military superiority over his rivals in the crumbling Tetrarchy.
In the late seventh century, Kent gradually came to be dominated by Mercia.
The reform movement succeeded in limiting the Lusignan influence, however, and gradually Edward's attitude started to change.
This happened as parliament gradually developed into a bicameral institution, composed of a House of Lords and a House of Commons.
Henry tackled all of the domestic policies together and gradually built on them a wider policy.
Reforms were also gradually introduced in the conditions for enlisted men with the abolition of military flogging in 1879, amongst others.
They gradually drifted away from their original seats, and at length settled in Robeson, about the center of the county.
The Emperor gradually conceived the idea that Algeria should be governed differently from other colonies.
However, with insufficient funds voted by Parliament, Charles was forced to gradually disband his troops.
Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled, mainly due to the Rye House Plot.
Addington, unable to face the combined opposition of Pitt and Fox, saw his majority gradually evaporate.
French troops gradually encroached on Spanish territory until they occupied Madrid, and installed a client monarchy.
The battle began favorably for the Austrians as their initial attack surprised the French and gradually drove them back.
Nelson gradually recovered over several months, and soon began agitating for a command.
Wellington was gradually superseded as leader of the Tories by Robert Peel, while the party evolved into the Conservatives.
After 1848, as the movement faded, its demands appeared less threatening and were gradually enacted by other reformers.
Thereafter, the Luftwaffe gradually decreased daylight operations in favour of nocturnal attacks, to avoid RAF defences.
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However, Villa gradually began to recover under the management of former club captain Vic Crowe.
The thickness of a layer of thatch decreases over time as the surface gradually turns to compost and is blown off the roof by wind and rain.
During the 20th and early 21st centuries, the judicial functions were gradually removed.
Wessex and Mercia gradually established an occasionally unstable alliance, with Wessex gaining the upper hand.
Over the next century, the colleges gradually diversified their education programmes.
Trade gradually returned and the town became prosperous during the Tudor period.
Nationalization was one of the major mechanisms advocated by reformist socialists and social democrats for gradually transitioning to socialism.
In the years after the war, the drawbacks of the turbojet gradually became apparent.
Repair work gradually diminished until, finally the locomotive works closed, the land being redeveloped as Pride Park.
The Newcomen engine held its place without material change for about 75 years, spreading gradually to more areas of the UK and mainland Europe.
After the Second World War, the base reverted to a civilian airport and gradually expanded to its present size.
This unremitting insistence on his color, this continual shunting him into obscure and filthy ways, gradually gave Peter a loathly sensation.
Over the next thousand years, bronze gradually replaced stone as the main material for tool and weapon making.
The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, including the Etruscans.
The powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces.
A different style, which gradually superseded it is dominated by serpentine beasts with interlacing bodies.
In the following centuries most Gaels were gradually anglicized and Gaelic language mostly supplanted by English.
Since then, the Gaelic language has gradually diminished in most of Ireland and Scotland.
Popes gradually came to have a secular role as governors of regions near Rome.
Others appeared during the centuries following the Reformation and disappeared gradually with the time, such as much of Pietism.
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Over the years these were replaced gradually with degrees that were more and more internationally comparable programs and corresponding titles.
This gradually dried the climate, leading to a decline in rainfall and the drying of rivers.
In the 1950s, the Park was gradually turned into the recreation area open to the public that it is today.
As the authorities dealt with the worst excesses, public decorum was gradually restored.
Balti restaurants gradually opened up throughout the West Midlands, and then a large part of Britain.
Tilman Riemenschneider, Veit Stoss and others continued the style well into the 16th century, gradually absorbing Italian Renaissance influences.
Since then, scholars have gradually removed the attribution to Holbein from many copies and derivative works.
He then applied paint to a small area of the canvas, and gradually worked outward from that point.
Then gradually the process of cosmic decay began its work, and mankind became earthbound, and felt the need of food and shelter.
His illness caused him to miss the autumn term at Cambridge, though his health gradually began improving in 1962 and he returned that April.
All these show Byrd gradually emerging as a major figure on the Elizabethan musical landscape.
During the 1890s, Elgar gradually built up a reputation as a composer, chiefly of works for the great choral festivals of the English Midlands.
Baines requests gradually increased intimacy in exchange for greater numbers of keys.
Popular at first, gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music.
Center work in the middle of the room starts out with slower exercises, gradually leading up to faster exercises and larger movements.
His elder brother was already a pupil, and Olivier gradually settled in, though he felt himself to be something of an outsider.
Its rules gradually changed with the aim of producing a faster, more entertaining game for spectators.
Beginning in the 1970s, amateurism requirements were gradually phased out of the Olympic Charter.
Although the number of amateurs remained high between the wars their ability to match their professional counterparts gradually receded.
Annual rainfall is greater in the eastern portions, gradually tapering off until reaching the Pacific Coast where it increases again.
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Others see it as something to be attained gradually and with the full consent of the Danish government and the Danish nation.
Following independence, the southern state gradually severed all remaining constitutional links with the United Kingdom and the British monarchy.
Later research indicated that the culture may have developed gradually and continuously between the Celts and the indigenous populations.
The Scottish legal system was suspended, but some courts and institutions were gradually restored.
Subsequently developed by Thomas Munro, this system was gradually extended all over South India.
During this time the successive Royal Charters had gradually given the East India Company more power to administer justice in these towns.
Initially confined to Europe, the fighting gradually assumed a global dimension as the political ambitions of the Revolution expanded.
Disraeli gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately taking positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.
The climate is oceanic in the north and west and becomes gradually warmer and continental towards the south and east.
From 1942, Allied bombing campaigns gradually destroyed the Luftwaffe's fighter arm.
The Defence of the Reich campaign gradually destroyed the Luftwaffe's fighter arm.
A raid of 70 bombers on 18 September also suffered badly, and day raids were gradually phased out leaving the main attacks at night.
The United Kingdom stated that it would gradually withdraw its troops, however it did not specify numbers or dates.
Their power was gradually ceded by conquest and treaty during the several decades that followed.
The two continents gradually collided, joining Scotland to the area which would become England and Europe.
During this period, great accumulations of sand, gravel and mud were deposited further south in Wales, and these gradually consolidated.
The number of Life Peers then gradually increased, though not at a constant rate.
During the rule of the succeeding Hanoverian dynasty, power was gradually exercised more by parliament and the government.
The trade union movement in Britain gradually developed from the Medieval guild system.
The Chartist movement's reformist goals, although not immediately and directly attained, were gradually achieved.

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