Gradually, meanings emerge and emotions crystallize.
I'm pretty sure, for instance, that my husband still doesn't know my phone number, which he stored on his phone on the day we met, whereas I remember his because he wrote it down for me on a tiny scrap of paper that I pinned to my bulletin board, where it gradually accrued meaning.
From 0.5 to 0, the coverage gradually decreases, meaning that the W sampling distribution is diverging from normality in this range.
Still considering the analytical CI, we observe that for high values of W (e.g. W>0.8 and N>100) the CI coverage gradually decreases, meaning that the 95% CI has in reality a lower coverage and the confidence level of the interval is overestimated (figure 4).
He said that he believed there was no danger in injecting himself because the permafrost that they were frozen in is gradually melting — meaning that they're making their way into the world — and haven't done any damage to anyone yet.
They will be increasingly segregated from the less observant, who will gradually drift away, meaning total numbers will stagnate or fall.
The pair began the bike stage with a healthy lead but they were gradually reeled in, meaning a large group began the run together.
Gradually, the meaning of each song comes into focus, like those three-dimensional drawings that at first glance are hidden in posters of seemingly abstract pointillism.
Research into the environmental consequences of nuclear explosions and of other kinds of pollution shared a planetary perspective, a vantage greatly enhanced by the space program; gradually, the meaning of the word "environment" changed from "habitat" to "planet".
