gradual move

collocation in English

meaningsofgradualandmove

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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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move
noun
uk
/muːv/us
/muːv/
an act ...
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(Definition ofgradualandmovefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The only remaining solution is to delay retirement either by increasing retirement ages or by increasing the opportunities for part-time work and a moregradualmovetowards full retirement.
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The period in which these works were composed, with thegradualmovefrom analogue to digital media, is particularly rich in examples of such dialectical relationships.
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My group favours agradualmovetowards incineration, particularly of waste which is not biodegradable.
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With the development of more powerful computers there has been agradualmovetowards larger bureaux.
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Over the past decade or so, we have seen agradualmovefrom institutional care to a more community-based provision.
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It was going to be agradualmovefrom the present position.
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It is welcome that there should be somegradualmovein that direction.
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For a number of years, slowly, much too slowly, there was agradualmovetowards community care.
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To allow for easier implementation of the new system, agradualmovetowards it over a period of five years has been determined.
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I have an edgy feeling that tonight we may be seeing the beginnings of a diminishing interest and ourgradualmoveaway from involvement.
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In recent years we have seen agradualmovetowards more responsibility.
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Instead, we had agradualmovetowards group practice.
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The alternative must be a much moregradualmovein the same direction.
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For these reasons we see agradualmoveto eliminate what has been called the cross-subsidy system.
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Decommissioning, and thegradualmoveaway from it, has been an issue for two or three years now.
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There has been in all these countries agradualmovetowards the present state of things.
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I should like to see a moregradualmove.
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However, we need to consider more seriously whether we can encourage agradualmoveout of areas where employment is being extinguished into areas of real need.
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These great direct grant schools are all willing participants in the slow andgradualmovetowards comprehensive education as we see it, as a vision for the future.
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The protected expenditure levels are set considerably above the transport supplementary grant levels for last year and involve agradualmovetowards balanced and fair subsidy levels.
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