As she grows older, the percentages will gradually shift, without any instructions from Ms. Doe.
"He wants to gradually shift the shade of government from red to blue".
We should gradually shift our purchases of oil away from Saudi Arabia to other producers, like Russia.
The economic boom is causing a local reversal of North America's dominant trend for populations to gradually shift south.
In Canada, new employees start at lower rate but gradually shift to the higher wage rate scale.
Meanwhile, instead of building large centralized power stations, they could gradually shift to localized sources of renewable power, like solar cells.
Writing in the 1970s, Inglehart argued that prosperity alone would ensure that humanity's values would gradually shift from materialism to postmateralist values like autonomy and self-expression.
But companies troubled by concerns over MCI's honesty or its long-term stability may gradually shift more of their business to its rivals.
"Patiently explaining his position, he gathered support for a plan that will gradually shift a large portion of M.I.T.'s research from military to social needs".
Consequently, we look for the Federal Reserve's commentary to gradually shift in the months ahead and favour a rate hike early in the second quarter of 2015".
But public market investors don't like businesses that are in long-term decline as their customers gradually shift to newer technologies.
