"gradually recognized" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has been gradually acknowledged or acknowledged over time. Example: Over the years, the scientist's groundbreaking theories were gradually recognized as revolutionary contributions to the field of physics.
Studying their families, I gradually recognized that all parenting is guesswork, and that difference of any kind, positive or negative, makes the guessing harder.
Thanks largely to Brod's efforts, Kafka's slim, enigmatic corpus was gradually recognized as one of the great monuments of 20th-century literature.
He had me pay attention to my feet as I served, and I gradually recognized that my legs weren't really underneath me when I swung my racquet up into the air.
Although Ravalomanana was gradually recognized by the international community as the legitimate leader of Madagascar, he was still faced with periodic unrest at home, including failed coup attempts in 2003 and 2006.
I recount in my book the process by which I gradually recognized that many of those who were criticizing my co-authors and me were not engaged in good faith scientific debate, but instead were simply trying to discredit us, and climate change research more generally.
The advantages and importance of the SOM strategy are gradually recognized by more and more enterprises.
It is a ghost library: a room lined with bands of crenellated white plaster that you gradually recognize as the negative casts of jutting shelves and rows of books, as if the wisdom of the ages has evaporated.
Finally, the business got a lift from multiyear licensing agreements with big corporate customers, which allow them to install new versions of the operating system on their computers, with Microsoft gradually recognizing the revenue over the life of the contracts.
The new legislation will allow companies to gradually recognize the income over five years instead of all at once.
The Supreme Court has been gradually recognizing that some regulations reducing the value of a person's property are a form of takings.
As organizations are gradually recognizing that the interconnectivity between the operational and analytic aspects of the business is driven by high quality data, there will be a recurring need to ensure that any major initiative is aligned with the data governance and data quality management processes.
