gradual accumulation

collocation in English

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gradual
adjective
uk
/ˈɡrædʒ.u.əl/us
/ˈɡrædʒ.u.əl/
happening or changing slowly over a long period of time ...
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accumulation
noun[U or C]
uk
/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
an amount of something that has ...
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(Definition ofgradualandaccumulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Other areas of the canal show more horizontal layering caused by thegradualaccumulationof sediments over time.
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Steiner and colleagues (1995) suggest that there may be agradualaccumulationof risk factors, which only manifest themselves during the stress of adolescence.
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However, regardless of the theory of acquisition of syntax, acquisition of lexical knowledge - detailed and language-specific as it is - must follow more of agradualaccumulationmodel.
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That would not have happened if there had been a more gentle approach to the task and a moregradualaccumulationof schemes and responsibilities.
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There was agradualaccumulationof the stock into hands which intended to convert or which were compelled to convert.
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Moreover, the fouling process starts again immediately after cleaning, and thegradualaccumulationof deposits reduces performance until the next cleaning treatment is initiated.
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Drug trapping is followed by agradualaccumulationof drug-phospholipid complexes within the internal lysosomal membranes.
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It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from thegradualaccumulationof minute calcite plates (coccoliths) shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores.
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Thegradualaccumulationof minute variations did not fit with the facts of heredity.
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Natural selection is emphasized as the most important mechanism of evolution; large changes are the result of thegradualaccumulationof small changes over long periods of time.
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Further, such explanations can allow the slightly more complex to be explained in terms of the slightly less, so gradual accumulations of complexity can be explained.
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