gradual process
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgradualandprocess
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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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process
noun[C]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses/us/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition ofgradualandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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After suffering a significant loss of support in the 1974 elections, the military leadership began agradualprocessof political liberalisation.
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It would be odd, indeed, if, through thisgradualprocess, suddenly non-physical mental entities came into being.
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Several other scholars, who claim a verygradualprocess, put the ending date of the vocalisation of \\l\\ in the middle of the 12th century.
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This observation supports the notion that the development of phonemic categories is agradualprocessthat diffuses through the child's lexicon.
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Interestingly, thegradualprocesstowards stable farmsteads begins at a time when the communal urnfields are no longer in use.
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Democratising the public sphere turned out to be agradualprocessfrom within, encompassing a multitude of conflicts and setbacks.
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In my view, the linguistic correlate of functional turnover, selective replication, does not need to be agradualprocess.
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What may be needed is agradualprocessof change, driven by a participatory process involving all principals.
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Presbyacusis is agradualprocessand individuals are often unaware that their hearing is deteriorating.
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The change from body tegument to nephridiopore tegument was clearly not an abrupt, but rather agradualprocess(fig. 5).
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At what point does the materialized spirit assume independent existence, considering that the extrusion of ectoplasm is agradualprocess?
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From this point of view, nuclear fragmentation followed by cellular fragmentation is agradualprocess resulting in disintegration of preimplantation embryos.
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But they certainly can qualify as distributive considerations that lie behind thegradualprocessof 'socializing medicine' which he describes.
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The ideational consensus identified was the result of agradualprocessthat went hand in hand with the forging of a new governing coalition.
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This division indicates a perception of ' growing up ' as agradualprocess, with every year entailing a different halakhic status.
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Once adopted, policies go through agradualprocessof institutionalization.
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Elderly informants say it was agradualprocess.
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The development of the corner layer is agradualprocess, so that there is no particular time in which the corner layer begins to exist.
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This was agradualprocessas the different shops became available during the 1860s and early 1870s.
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Thus, trade liberalization has been agradualprocessrather than an immediate, one-time event.
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