Sentence examples for gradually being eroded from inspiring English sources

The crippling fear of the gulag is gradually being eroded by time.

But, looking back, I would say that it was a peace gradually being eroded by the rising price of gold.

"The ability to control", blurted Dick Parsons, president of Time Warner, "is gradually being eroded by the diminishing barriers to getting into this business".

Expansion of the press continued until the 1950s, when sales peaked, its dominance gradually being eroded by the popularity of television and the competing BBC and ITV network.

But a fall in like-for-like sales of 2.8% in the quarter, and 2.1% in the half-year, is proof that Sainsbury's old oasis in the middle of the market – no white-elephant hypermarkets, lots of convenience stores – is gradually being eroded.

But a fall in like-for-like sales of 2.8% in the quarter, and 2.1% in the half-year, is sufficient evidence that Sainsbury's old oasis in the middle of the market – no white-elephant hypermarkets, lots of convenience stores – is gradually being eroded.

Some councils believe the role and influence of local government has gradually been eroded in recent decades and saw what was, in effect, an order to maintain teacher numbers regardless of local circumstances in that context.

Of course, Beijing fears that its own grip on Hong Kong will gradually be eroded, in return.

The whole world of classical music has gradually been eroding, both from the competing sound-blasts of amplified trivia and from the distractions of the rapidly all-consuming media glut.

Archaeologists believe the two circles, which originally stood inland in boggy freshwater but are now being eroded gradually by the tides, were part of the same monumental complex connected with rites to honour the dead.

But gradually its independence was eroded.