But with the help of some very good financial advisers - Currey & Co, whom he still thanks daily - he gradually worked out a settlement.
In the preceding years they gradually work out that the most senior managers in most banks have no idea what is going on in their organisations.
He gradually worked out how human eggs mature to the point where they can be fertilised, but had little success getting such fertilised eggs to develop into embryos that could be implanted into women, in order that they could grow into children.The breakthrough came when he teamed up with Steptoe, who was working on the then-novel technique of laparoscopy (keyhole surgery).
A third generation British Indian, she rebels, suffers a hideous event she feels unable to tell anyone about and only very gradually works out her true identity by becoming increasingly involved in women's rights, first in England and then in India.
Boyne's book is told through the eyes of a concentration camp kommandant's son who only gradually works out what is going on, while dealing with his own upheaval from his comfortable home in Berlin to Auschwitz, for his father's new job.
The repetitive action of the ball circulating with the towels will gradually "work out" any stiff spots, leaving you with softer towels.
We went through 20 years of privatisations and we gradually worked out the best ways to do it.
A dramatic switch in formation often prompts a sudden improvement, before opposition managers gradually work out how to exploit weaknesses of the new system.
The plan at the time was ostensibly to free up time to work on tax reform, handle any other pressing issues, and gradually work out a deal to fund the government through September 2018.
Performers gradually stopped working out their own cadenzas, instead turning to a repertory of written-out versions.
