Sentence examples for been a gradual increase from inspiring English sources

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

In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in mistransfusion events reported to our Regional Hemovigilance Division.

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

Over the last two decades, there has been a gradual increase in the number of women CEOs, so that women now occupy 4.8% of CEO positions among Fortune 500 firms.

I have worked as a GP over the past decade in about a third of the around 140 prisons in England and Wales – all categories, male and female – and in all there has been a gradual increase in the prison population, leading to overcrowding.

"On a matter like this, public opinion is awfully important, in terms of determining which image is really going to last," said Jim Hoge, the editor of Foreign Affairs, who observed that there had been a gradual increase in the use of video clips to bear witness and shape opinion.

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.

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.

By contrast, in the descending and medial vestibular nuclei there was a gradual increase of C and L cells quantitatively from the rostral to the caudal part.