gradual removal

collocation in English

meaningsofgradualandremoval

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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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removal
noun[U]
uk
/rɪˈmuː.vəl/us
/rɪˈmuː.vəl/
the act of taking something or someone away from somewhere ...
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(Definition ofgradualandremovalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This new, much higher limit, turned out to be a harbinger of thegradualremovalof capital stock limitations.
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The completion of the internal market and thegradualremovalof trade barriers has helped considerably to boost economies of scale in the outermost regions.
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They will have seen them suffering and witnessed thegradualremovalof their powers.
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As a sign of good will, there should surely be a linkage between compliance and thegradualremovalof sanctions.
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We should like to see thegradualremovalof trade barriers in that area.
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But we have been seeing thegradualremovalof all those markers in our society which make marriage different.
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Since the last war there has been an enormous growth in consumer consciousness, stimulated by greater opportunity, more money and thegradualremovalof war-time restrictions.
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Response efficiency has also improved withgradualremovalof species from recalcitrant category.
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After the earthquake of 1627 and thegradualremovalof walls, the town expanded with the creation of new districts.
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With thegradualremovalof precious metals from the monetary system, banknotes evolved to represent credit money, or (if backed by the credit of a government) also fiat money.
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It supports an extension in individual rights as well as greater separation of church and state, including agradualremovalof all state funding for religious institutions.
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A common theory suggests they form through thegradualremovalof sand, dust and other fine-grained material by the wind and intermittent rain, leaving the larger fragments behind.
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