Sentence examples for be a gradual increase from inspiring English sources

U.S. military officials said that over the next few months there would be a gradual increase in Iraqi security forces and more frequent combat operations.

While that would be a gradual increase in actual dollars spent, it would be about 2percentt less each year than what would be needed to keep pace with inflation.

The result of the new rules is likely to be a gradual increase in the amount of electronic trading on the NYSE and would help it retain market share compared to rival trading systems.

With increased water supply from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, there will be a gradual increase in volume of redistributed water supplied to industrial production departments rather than to urban residents.

This is likely to be more accurate when applied to case studies, as it is unlikely that there would be a vast jump in damage and/or disruption due to an extra millimetre of ash being deposited on an area, rather there would be a gradual increase in damage with increasing ashfall thickness.

However, since the late 1990s, there appeared to be a gradual increase in the number of cases reported.

Mackey: It was mix of both, and it was a gradual increase.

"They always argued that it was a gradual increase that was needed.

"I think the answer a lot of the time is a gradual increase in performance," he says.

There had been a gradual increase in the number of drivers in rich countries.

Until 200,000 years ago, there had been a gradual increase in brain size among hominins, starting three million years ago.