In subsequent generations, these haplotypes will gradually be broken up through recombination, but loci at short genetic distances from each other may remain linked for many generations [ 15].
In the same way that seeds gradually die, fruits and vegetables go through a similar process as their nutritional content gradually oxidizes or is broken down by the vegetables own enzymes, but vegetables lose nutrition hundreds of times more rapidly than cereals.
Then, gradually, the circle is broken — the dancers form alliances, one pair against the other — and this signals the coming breakdown of faith and love.
Gradually, the barriers were broken down and parents became involved with the school – so much so, that at the first parents' evening afterwards, when it was mentioned there were two vacancies on the governing body, hands went up to fill them within a moment.
This dualistic relationship is broken gradually as the practitioner moves into the stage of meditation.
AfD may be deluded in believing the currency can be broken up gradually (it thinks southern countries should run parallel national currencies for several years).
This is why it has to be broken in gradually.
Gradually, like falling leaves, the locks were broken off, one person taking the thermos, another the wood tools — files and a hammer, a plane, a level.
Determined not to put her mother through more misery, Louise wanted the news to be broken to the Queen gradually.
A promise can also be broken in minor ways, gradually, or partially.
