The level of respect received from doctors, shop assistants, officials of all sorts is gradually diminishing.
This view was maintained with only gradually diminishing conviction for at least another 50 years.
It was another milestone in the gradually diminishing American military presence in the country.
Like wetlands across the country, the marshes have been gradually diminishing in the past 100 years, according to scientists.
Sadly, too, a serpent has entered this paradise and is gradually diminishing the claim made by Perfect View's name.
It now appears as a large, square plinth (the processional path) upon which stand five terraces gradually diminishing in size.
However, one significant change of language did occur, with the phrase "underutilization of labour resources" being "significant" changed to "gradually diminishing".
Despite brilliant artistic achievements (we have a concert of music by Mark-Anthony Turnage at LSO St Luke's this Sunday), the grant has never gone up, gradually diminishing to £90k, to £60k, to £30k, to £20k.
Resale restrictions require the homeowners to pay the city a gradually diminishing portion of the sale price if they sell the property within 20 years of the original purchase.
I do have a soft spot for Henry, for his limitations and blunders, for the gradually diminishing size of his ambition, and for the world he believes he lives in.
About 35,000 moved into the country after the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war, which lasted from 1975 to 1990, but the number has been gradually diminishing in the last two years.
