Sentence examples for gradually retreated from inspiring English sources

But it has gradually retreated from that position and hopes the NEC will follow suit.

Since Rudd's bid to place climate change centre stage, Australia has gradually retreated from the issue.

As the light gradually retreated beyond Can Feliz's large windows, Lin considered my request to meet her father.

After the withdrawal of the Romans, the native Picts gradually retreated before the advance of the Anglo-Saxons and Scots.

After two years of non-stop pop, the sweetness of success turned bitter for Wheeler, who gradually retreated into depression.

The lake basin in the southern part of the study area gradually retreated, and the Wei River formed in the early Pleistocene.

But its charts will almost certainly show budget deficits that will gradually retreat to tamer levels.

Minutes after being posted at his Internet site (www.gildertech.com), the companies' stock prices rise vertiginously (until, days later, they gradually retreat to less exalted levels).

The net outcome is that the Moon is gradually retreating from Earth, climbing to a higher and higher orbit and moving faster and faster.

Led by the pianists Lennie Tristano and, later, Sal Mosca, these musicians tested their theories in rehearsal studios, gradually retreating from the public eye — a retreat from which Mr. Brown has only recently emerged for the occasional club date.

Upon annealing, the upper polymer layers gradually retreat and the remaining area becomes thicker, but in contrast the first half polymer layer contacting mica becomes thinner due to wetting and the parallel orientation of the E crystal stems.