Sentence examples for gradual realisation from inspiring English sources

But after years of football team rejections and two splits in my collar bone, a slow and gradual realisation dawned upon me: I realised that I might never be Men.

One City worker believes there is now a "gradual realisation that the glory days are gone".

Rather a slow, gradual realisation that I was allowed to be interested in becoming a developer.

But that was the main catalyst, plus the gradual realisation that I wasn't happy.

There was a gradual realisation that the West Midlands police hadn't got the right people.

The gradual realisation his thirtysomethings undergo is a subject which Pletzinger feels he will return to again and again.

Rising inequality has been climbing the political agenda for some time, and thanks to pioneers like Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett - authors of groundbreaking 2010 work The Spirit Level - there has been a gradual political realisation that massive wealth inequality in and of itself is damaging to the social fabric, regardless of a nation's poverty levels.

Our participants with MS came to know that they had SPMS in a variety of ways, from gradual personal realisation to a medical decision the basis of which was hard to understand.

A doctor returns to his smalltown practice and comes to the gradual and horrific realisation that people's personalities are being infiltrated by extraterrestrial invaders.

The ageing process may be gradual but the realisation that it is fully under way is like a large penny (or shilling, depending on your age) dropping with an unwelcome clang.

For others it was a gradual process of realisation as their relative became increasingly ill and frail.