gradual evolution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgradualandevolution
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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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evolution
noun[U]
uk/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/us/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/
the way in which living things change and develop over millions ...
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(Definition ofgradualandevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If linguistic theory is incompatible withgradualevolutionand development, perhaps linguistic theory needs to be revised.
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Gradualevolutionin a primordial organic world might produce a rather complex and diverse mixture of organic compounds and their inorganic partners.
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Thisgradualevolutionsuggests that the production possibilities of the written mode are not obvious.
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Nevertheless, polymorphism in modulator elements is an intuitively appealing mechanism for quantitative variation in gene expression that could contribute togradualevolutionof gene expression.
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Given thegradualevolutionof this target-grip size effect, there is no reason to expect a large raw illusion effect early in the movement.
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There are no unintended consequences here, no bitter and uncertain struggles, no strange breaks in thegradualevolutionof efficient institutions.
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This development has seen thegradualevolutionof water market policies, resulting in less and less impeded markets.
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In any event, agradualevolutionfrom multiple cone centers to single cones might pose functional difficulties.
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An event may represent abrupt change or can be triggered whengradualevolutionis considered to be significant enough (over some predefined threshold) to register change.
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Policy-makers apparently opted for the indirect method of reform, that is,gradualevolutionand adaptation of institutions in response to growing competitive pressures between and within ports.
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He said it is agradualevolution, but an inevitable one.
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It is agradualevolutionand an inevitable evolution.
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We have always thought in this country that the proper method of democratic government ought always to be one ofgradualevolution.
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These are the areas where, together with thegradualevolutionof the financial institutions, progress is to be made.
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How, if we cannot trust to thegradualevolutionof the new system which we began?
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All this has been achieved bygradualevolution.
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It was the first step in thegradualevolutionof the plan.
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This has of course been a process of verygradualevolution.
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I believe that we shall see agradualevolutionin that direction.
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