Sentence examples for descended gradually from inspiring English sources

"Just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the Sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me," he wrote in a brief memoir.

The count descended gradually, and on postoperative day 27 it reached 100 × 104/μl.

The results showed that silt content was an important factor to indicate land degradation, and it descended gradually with the development of land degradation.

The counts descended gradually, and on postoperative day 34, his platelet count reached the normal range and he was discharged from the hospital.

The peak values of SSS activity in all japonica varieties appeared at 10 days after flowering, and then descended gradually during rice grain filling stage, which were consistent with previous reports [41] [43].

The mountains descend gradually to small plains in the northeast.

"The habitual food of the individual working man varies according to his wages... descending gradually... until on the lowest round of the ladder potatoes form the sole food.

We continued west on the W9, descending gradually on a vast table of inclined strata with brief scrambles into a clutch of oleander-dotted wadis (valleys).

The slope of Park Slope descends gradually from northeast to southwest, leading to the terminology North Slope (from Flatbush Avenue to Union Street), Center Slope (from the south side of Union Street to Fifth or Sixth Streets) and South Slope beyond that.

The pans form a broad inland basin that descends gradually from 3,150 feet (960 m) in the west to 2,975 feet (900 m) and then rise more steeply to between 3,500 and 4,000 feet (1,050 and 1,200 m) eastward.

The plotting isn't perfect – there are places you could drive a whole fleet of 18-wheelers through its holes – but one can follow it, which means the horror descends gradually and engulfs the viewer, rather than coming down like a tonne of bricks a handful of times before being lifted again.