gradual development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgradualanddevelopment
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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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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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Is it possible that lexical factors are involved in this phoneticallygradualdevelopmentof the nasal vowels?
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It is thisgradualdevelopmentof the emerging body that links it to penance.
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Finally, she describes the state's political culture and thegradualdevelopmentof a middle-class opposition.
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We assume that thegradualdevelopmentof the vocabulary is a restricting factor.
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However, the past 20 years has seen thegradualdevelopmentof an additional hurdle to market access.
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There was agradualdevelopmentof metabolic acidosis during maternal hypoxia that could be attributed to the accumulation of lactic acid.
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There are also many intangibles, such as thegradualdevelopmentof an environment more conducive to research.
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Put differently, for both grammatical phenomena researchers have not observed an abrupt change, but instead agradualdevelopment.
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This degree of congruity between the earlier maps is somewhat illusory, reflecting their limited ability to capture thegradualdevelopmentassociated with vegetational succession.
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Thus, the north witnessed thegradualdevelopmentof a free market in wage labour.
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This process could provide information about thegradualdevelopmentof a rank society.
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Furthermore, we observed agradualdevelopmentof this behaviour over the preceding years.
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What was the reason for this striking transformation after years ofgradualdevelopment?
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There is agradualdevelopmentof a reverse secondary flow which originates from the centre of the tube when a 2 10.
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Agradualdevelopmentfrom one style into another would imply a potential for overlap between styles, like on a continuum.
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I preferred, however, to trace thegradualdevelopmentof the trading corporation into a political power, and to describe carefully the economic and other causes which led to this transformation.
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Often these accounts appeal to lexical acquisition to explain thegradualdevelopmentof certain structures.
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As well as expectinggradualdevelopmentin different forms of understanding, we also predict and would investigate unevenness in development between different areas of children's experience.
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From a developmental perspective this has always been a peculiar argument, seemingly at odds with thegradualdevelopmentof phonological, syntactic, and semantic skills of infants.
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