Its development was gradual at first, as Mr. Dresser and Ms. Melford plucked obliquely at the strings of their instruments.
His development was gradual, and his later works are difficult to distinguish from those of Italian masters.
The development was gradual and purely external (i.e., in the shapes of the single letters); from the internal standpoint (i.e., considering the phonetic values of the letters), there has been no development, though it must be borne in mind that for several letters (waw, ḥet, tzade, qof, shin, sin, and so forth) the exact original phonetic value is still uncertain.
An obvious consequence of these developments was gradual vanishing of illuminated ZnS surfaces and cessation of abiogenic photosynthesis.
However, the development of erosion is gradual, and many elderly people may hesitate to seek medical care; instead, they may adapt to a sedentary lifestyle.
"Development is a gradual thing.
While recognizing that embryonic development is a gradual process, some researchers, politicians and ethicists have highlighted certain milestones in that development as perhaps morally relevant.
A fundamental stage of adolescent development is the gradual transfer of decision making from parent to child that allows individuals to start taking responsibility for their own health (McCabe, 1996), and girls in this study were clearly at this stage.
This explains why the student sees "need as the [cause of] origin of variation" (Demastes et al. 1996, p. 413); and also, why the evolutionary change is seen by the student as a transformation or development in the traits: it is "gradual change in the traits themselves" (Bishop and Anderson 1990) (p. 423).
