gradual return

collocation in English

meaningsofgradualandreturn

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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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return
noun
uk
/rɪˈtɜːn/us
/rɪˈtɝːn/
an occasion when someone goes or comes back to a place where they ...
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(Definition ofgradualandreturnfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Beginning in weeks 5 and 6 and continuing through weeks 9 and 10, there was agradualreturnof the strike distribution to control patterns.
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He was clearly anxious to bring about agradualreturnto normalcy, wherever possible and wherever sensible.
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Thegradualreturnto more normal conditions should bring continued improvement.
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All the economic indicators point to a period of sustainable growth and agradualreturnto sound finance.
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Thegradualreturnto full consciousness is necessarily an exceedingly painful process.
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I am glad to say that the wise men recommended a phasing out of quotas to provide agradualreturnto a free market.
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It is not possible to encourage agradualreturn.
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First, it would be unacceptable to pin everything on agradualreturnto work.
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Unfortunately, there are these two permanent factors working for thegradualreturnof many of these children.
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Villages are seeing agradualreturnto normality, with water, gas and electricity available once again.
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We envisage agradualreturnby people on a voluntary basis.
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This discourages both social and physical rehabilitation procedures, agradualreturnto work or even the taking up of part-time work.
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With demobilisation and thegradualreturnof doctors and surgeons more clinics will be set up, and the system of treatment largely extended.
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Rather, as the security situation improved and restrictions eased, we should see a build-up of public confidence and agradualreturnto normal living.
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If wages were forced up to a subsistence level it would mean a certain amount of spending and thegradualreturnto employment of many who are now unemployed.
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The party supports a broad application of the elective principle, including direct elections of mayors and agradualreturnto elections of regional governors.
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It predicted two quarters of virtual stagnation in late 2009-early 2010, followed by agradualreturnto slight positive growth by late 2010.
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The health of the sickest continued to deteriorate despite thegradualreturnof the sun as temperatures held between.
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There was no rebound effect following withdrawal of treatment, but agradualreturnto pre-treatment bowel movement frequency should be expected.
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Rehabilitation, rest, andgradualreturnto the activity in which tendinosis was experienced is a common therapy.
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