gradual improvement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgradualandimprovement
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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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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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However, the overall picture showsgradualimprovementover time.
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Serially performed echocardiograms showedgradualimprovementin left ventricular size and shortening fraction.
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Probably as a result of thegradualimprovementof our optical instruments, the invisible companion became visible a few years ago (1862).
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On the other hand, we would expect children to solve some contrasts before others, with agradualimprovementwith age.
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For example, some persons may show steady, positive change, and others moregradualimprovementpunctuated by symptom exacerbations.
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In a finer grained analysis, however, we found that the development of stress is not simply a matter of agradualimprovementof overall correct scores.
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I regret that it is based on being agradualimprovementinstead of representing an enlightened march forward.
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Figures show year by year agradualimprovement—fewer fatalities and fewer accidents of a serious nature which are reportable.
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There has been agradualimprovement.
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There is agradualimprovement, but possibly this may take time.
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During the past 16 years, there has been agradualimprovement, with education reforms, investment and development.
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They expected—and they are seeing—a steady andgradualimprovementin the quality of the service.
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One can strive forgradualimprovementbut there can, alas, be little hope of achieving perfection.
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It is, however, confidently hoped that the new organisation will result in agradualimprovementin those facilities.
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The increase in costs has been due to thegradualimprovementof security measures over the years as well as to inflation.
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The first is the one on which he is working, that we are going to have agradualimprovement.
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The period is 21 months now, but agradualimprovementis being made.
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So there is agradualimprovement.
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There has been agradualimprovementin all the past years.
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