gradual loss
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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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loss
noun
uk/lɒs/us/lɑːs/
the fact that you no longer have something or have less ...
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They lead to agraduallossof some key abilities required for coping in an urban environment.
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During this cell migration there is also agraduallossof extracellular protein.
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In other words, they causegraduallossof resilience, making the system increasingly unstable.
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Failure to do so may well lead to institutionalized language segregation and agraduallossof national unity.
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In open-angle glaucoma, there is agraduallossof vision that rarely leads to blindness.
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The large scale effects of thisgraduallosshave only recently been identified.
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With disease progression there is agraduallossof ability to perform tasks of daily living.
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This showed again agraduallossof impermeability, resulting in a rather low survival percentage after 2.5 years.
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Second, we implemented deprivation as a random pruning of deprived-eye synapses rather than as agraduallossof synaptic strength.
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Alzheimer's symptoms include agraduallossof memory and eventual failure of other body functions that are directed by the brain, resulting in death.
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This would have caused thegradualloss, from one generation to the next, of precious land and this negatively affected the farming potential of the community.
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In some cases, we model deprivation as a random deletion of synapses from the deprived eye, rather than as agraduallossof synaptic strength under activity patterns simulating deprivation.
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Ditidaht sonorants are being affected by agraduallossof glottalisation.
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Nestled on the frontier between human and wilderness ecosystems, valley settlements were undermined by thegraduallossof ablebodied individuals, social breakdown, political instability and chronic undernourishment.
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Indeed, the fear of agraduallossof trade union influence following the formation of multinational combines is mentioned frequently but scarcely ever translated into recognisable strategies.
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However, it was equally likely that the common myna had been in decline before the 1980s due to thegraduallossto its preferred habitat - agricultural land.
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We have suffered from agradualloss.
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In most people thisgraduallosshas no effect at all, but dementia occurs in elderly people whose brain cell loss is abnormally heavy.
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It is true that during that period there have been certain minor gains to set against thisgradualloss.
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