gradual increase
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgradualandincrease
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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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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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In the first situation, it is assumed that adhesion is instantaneous and promoted by agradualincreaseof the global compression effort.
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Thegradualincreasein household autonomy challenged the social, ceremonial and economic foundations of the neighbourhood communities.
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Agradualincreaseof the tax rate until it reaches $24 makes the power plants switch to washed coal in 2003.
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Thegradualincreaseof the wall velocity at the leading edge, and decrease at the trailing edge, are also evident in the figure.
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Particularly, nicotine induced different types of calcium responses (a rapid and transient increase, a slow andgradualincreaseand a combination of both).
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This sequence of forest types according togradualincreasein tree density was interpreted as successional sequence developing into dense forest.
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As regards neutral glycosphingolipid biosynthesis, a slightgradualincreasewas observed throughout the developmental period analysed in this study.
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However, since then the trend has reverted to the moregradualincreasepreviously seen.
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Also, agradualincreaseseems to have occurred between 1861 and 1879 in the age at marriage of females.
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Due to thegradualincreasein case registrations, beginning in late 1985 only a 20% random sample of the "mild" cases was selected for interviewing.
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To achieve similar inhibition against second, third and fourth instars, there was agradualincrease in the concentration of each component (table 1).
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In this series, there is agradualincreasein the severity of the detection deficit as injection depth increases for both postinjection time blocks.
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Total organic carbon shows agradualincreasefrom around 0.4 % in the lowermost part to about 0.6 % near the core top.
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A second, more simplified explanation is based on thegradualincreasein distance and the proportional decrease in force during a slow pull-out.
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The fine adjustment of the ventricular pressure by balloon and thegradualincreaseof afterload are the part of merits of this maneuver.
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Thegradualincreasein precursor mass is accompanied by an increase in current transferred to the precursor.
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Thegradualincreasein tree cover up the catena appears a priori to be accompanied by an increase in species diversity.
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We recorded the change in heart rate to thegradualincreasein the loudness of the white noise.
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But uniform resistance to amoxicillin, chloramphenicol, co-trimoxazole andgradualincreasein resistance to tetracycline, furazolidone and nalidixic acid was noted over the years.
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Agradualincreasein the smoke rotational velocity is, in fact, vividly perceivable elsewhere in the motion pictures.
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