The phrase "gradually increasing number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a number that is slowly but steadily getting larger. Example: "In recent years, there has been a gradually increasing number of people choosing to live in urban areas rather than rural areas." In this sentence, the phrase is used to describe the slow and consistent growth in the number of people choosing to live in urban areas.
Despite the gradually increasing number of female journalists on a global level, it is largely men who remain in decision-making roles.
Starting in 2017, the premiums would be raised, and a gradually increasing number of people would have to pay them, eventually reaching middle-class enrollees.
Educators prefer not using formative assessment method due to many reasons such as gradually increasing number of students, workload and its time consumption.
However, recent studies reported that fluoroquinolone- resistant bacterial strains are responsible for gradually increasing number of infections after transrectal prostate biopsy.
With the continued effort, the gradually increasing number of good reviews, and a new themed version launching imminently, we're looking through rose tinted spectacles at the possibility that we can soon stop searching job sites for a 9 to 5. Moonlighting, however, may be required.
This can be attested by the gradually increasing number of publicly available databases [3 6] and the recently organized IJCB 2011 competition on countermeasures to 2-D facial spoofing attacks [7] which was the first competition conducted for studying best practices for non-intrusive spoofing detection.
And then, gradually, increasing numbers of them failed to deliver – or delivered only decreasing amounts of what I went to them for.
Firstly, all protein targets were included in the analysis and gradually increasing numbers of clusters were tested for their prognostic significance with respect to PFS and OS as well as their association with T and N status, AJCC TNM stage, and overall response rate (ORR) to treatment.
In HD human brains, besides the gradually increased number of reactive astrocytes, their fine GFAP+ processes become numerous although shorter in comparison with control brains and of characteristic arborization, forming a fine loosely arranged network, whose density increases with the progression of the disease.
But gradually an increasing number of news businesses – including the Guardian – are investing in positive or constructive news operations, journalism that focuses on solving problems and encouraging audiences to take action.
A layered structure is evident from the cross-sectional images due to the uniformly stacked FGO and PEI layers, and the thickness of the coating increased gradually with increasing number of self-assembled layers, as shown in Fig. S2.
