"Gradually, I could see all kinds of things to do, and I could see what counted as progress".
Gradually, sobbing could be heard.
Gradually, you could see traditional Irish Catholicism unravelling.
Seismologists warned the aftershocks, although gradually weakening, could continue for months.
Had the changes been implemented more gradually, they could have been easier for the consumers and producers to absorb.
Gradually, people could land flip tricks (where the board flips in different ways under your feet while you remain in the air) cleaner, faster, and more consistently.
When biologists investigated, they found that the turbid swirls of plankton that typically grow in the lake by the million had nearly vanished — consumed gradually, they could only guess, by some ravenous organism.
As the home team failed to get anything resembling an attacking rhythm together, gradually one could sense that the men of Sporting Clube de Portugal knew this tie was there for the taking.
However, if Californians vote for Proposition 20 and against Propositions 25 and 27, then gradually they could restore accountability to their state's spending and taxing schemes.
Before the invention of modern, large-scale engineering projects, terrace systems were rarely built in single phases of construction, but instead developed gradually, and could even be said to have evolved.
