Sentence examples for Gradually shortening from inspiring English sources

She becomes almost incidental in the final tableau, in which the performers walk off one by one while silver disks sway to and fro on long, thin wires, setting up visual rhythms independent of the music, their arcs gradually shortening, until the lights are turned off and the music fades away.

For different reasons, both the prime minister and his deputy, Mr Alfano, would like to see voters given the power to choose between candidates on electoral lists.The mounting tensions in the PD, and between Mr Renzi and Mr Alfano are gradually shortening the odds on an election in the spring.

That is, mostly crabgrass and no red Oriental bridge w/ ancient hoofprints and no outbuildings and not a single SG, but only Ferber, who we'd kind of forgotten about, and who, as usual, had circled round and round the tree until nearly strangling to death on his gradually shortening leash and was looking up at us with begging eyes in which desperation was combined with a sort of low-boiling anger.

The player starts slowly, leaving considerable space between strikes, gradually shortening the interval between hits, until the drummer is playing a rapid roll of hits.

Moreover, entrainment to the more extreme T-cycles in the animal experimental studies was achieved by gradually lengthening or gradually shortening the T-cycle each day, which may have influenced the observed after-effects.

Later, playgrounds were carved out in congested areas, and facilities for games and sports were established not only for children but also for adults, whose workdays gradually shortened.

The fermented result tasted more like stinky cheese than like fresh hamachi; the Japanese, in adopting the strategy, gradually shortened the fermentation time, developing a fresher style of sushi that still relied on fermented rice for its distinctive sour taste.

The rise time of dp/dt in a given configuration was gradually shortened with increasing equivalence ratio.

The femur was then gradually shortened using the compression distraction device on the fixator until bone contact at the edges of the osteotomy was achieved.

The mixing roller to speed ratio was 1.2 1.0 and the roller distance was 10 mm, which was gradually shortened to 5 mm.

These early vests were in fact longer than the coats that covered them, but they gradually shortened over the years: By the middle of the next century the waist of the vest was where it is today.