The shadow science minister has held the seat since 2001, but with a gradually decreasing vote each election, confounding the theory of beneficial incumbency.
For weeks, even months, they would refuse shampoo, resulting in hair that emitted cheap cider and bong fumes wherever they went and gradually became lanker, greasier and flatter.
To our left, three softly curving peaks disappeared behind the clouds and then reappeared gradually.
As hip-hop is gradually assimilated into the UK festival circuit's headline slots, the next Jay-Z Snoop sadly shizn't.
As the British empire was gradually dissolved after the second world war and its industrial base attacked by younger, nimbler economies, the cohesion of the British state weakened.
What does change this month is that we gradually increase the number of long distances.
His report is now at least five years later than anyone imagined possible and as he meandered on – "It's been very difficult" – it gradually dawned on the committee that part of the delay was down to Chilcot's inability to use one word when several thousand would do.
But it has refused to budge on two "red-line" demands – for pension cuts and looser rules on hiring and firing – and hopes of reaching an agreement in time for a meeting of the finance ministers on Monday have gradually seeped away.
In the lead-up to Luke's death, Batty had been gradually decreasing the amount of contact they had with Anderson as his threats escalated and his paranoia seemed to worsen.
After a frantic opening, in which only a well-timed intervention from Hugo Campagnaro prevented Carlos Tévez from putting Mirko Vucinic through on goal, Inter gradually took control of the game.
As the US backdrop steadily improved in the aftermath of the Fed's cash injection, the central bank gradually slowed its bond-buying programme from $85bn a month to $15bn a month.
