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Gradually he learned to cope with living alone.

It gradually became clear that no agreement could be reached.

We gradually got used to it.

We believed they gradually spiral down out of the rings and into the planet’s atmosphere.

The bars gradually fill a channel, forcing the stream to overflow its banks and erode new channels.

Gradually, public health provisions began to cut into customary urban mortality rates.

So for them to selectively breed, to have the patience to be able to pick out just the right plants and gradually over generations, separate out the durable nutritious maize plant from the Beadle teosinte that easily broke apart, it’s a pretty impressive feat.

It will exist that way for millions of years, gradually releasing the material of its outer envelope into space.

Gradually, the center of railroad financing shifted to New York City, and in fact, it was the railroad boom of the 1850s that helped make Wall Street in New York City the nation's greatest capital market.

But you put that same lizard in a temperature controlled chamber and gradually drop the temperature, say, 20 degrees, and here of course, the lizard can't go off to lie in the sun.

Studies suggest that precipitation may be greater in cities than in the surrounding countryside; this phenomenon may be due in part to the increased roughness of city terrain, brought on by large structures that cause surface air to slow and gradually converge.

What ecological pressures might have caused fishes to gradually abandon their watery habitat and become increasingly land-dwelling creatures?

The green color of the leaves gradually fades away.

A mountain range may emerge and gradually split a population of organisms that can inhabit only lowland lakes, certain fish populations might become isolated in this way.

Similarly, a creeping glacier may gradually divide a population, or a land bridge such as the Isthmus of Panama may form and separate the marine life in the ocean waters on either side.

Each island was born from underwater volcanoes and was gradually covered by organisms derived from strays that rode the ocean currents and winds from other islands and continents.

As time went on, such communities gradually learned how to direct the flow of water to enhance the productive capacity of the land, while the introduction of the iron plow eventually led to the cultivation of heavy soils not previously susceptible to agriculture.

By means of their military prowess, dominant personalities, or political talents, these people gradually emerge as the leaders of that community.

Once established, a stand of Spartina begins to trap sediment, changing the substrate elevation, and eventually the stand evolves into a high marsh system where Spartina is gradually displaced by higher-elevation, brackish-water species.

Constrictors have evolved to kill their prey by crushing, but perhaps they once were venomous, and then at some point their venom-producing apparatus wasn’t needed anymore, so it gradually disappeared.

And then, for reasons which are not entirely clear, the concentration of greenhouse gases gradually goes down.

When this occurs, the first step has been taken toward theater as an autonomous activity, and thereafter entertainment and aesthetic values may gradually replace the former mystical and socially efficacious concerns.

They gradually add more and more fictional elements.

Gas pressure gradually dies out, and oil is pumped from the well.

He theorized that with the use of watercraft, people gradually colonized unglaciated refuges and areas along the continental shelf exposed by the lower sea level.

Our ties with people often deepen as we interact with them across time and gradually evolve interlocking habits and interests.