Sentence examples for has gradually worked from inspiring English sources

He famously ate 1,000 chicken nuggets in Beijing, having not fancied the look of the local food, but Mills has gradually worked his diet into shape.

Since leaving the second division side FC Wil – he played two full seasons there – the intelligent centre-back has gradually worked his way into the Basel first team (he was part of their impressive Europa League run last season and Champions League win at Stamford Bridge in September) and recently won his first senior caps for his country.

"The fact that the Barnett formula, the formula that decides what resources come to the devolved administrations, has got out of sync, has gradually worked against Wales," he said, referring to the way the UK government decides how much to give Welsh and Scottish governments.

This view received strong support from the press; The Times wrote, "The Old Vic began by offering opera of some sort to people who hardly knew what the word meant... under a wise, fostering guidance it has gradually worked upwards...Any kind of amalgamation which made it the poor relation of the 'Grand' season would be disastrous".

The company has gradually been working down its proportion of revenue from ads.

Ayotte has gradually warmed to climate issues.

And my brother, a brilliant barrister, had gradually stopped working as he developed the symptoms of the illness.

FOR the last four months, FreshDirect, an elaborate new online food delivery service, has been gradually working its way into ZIP codes in New York City.

The IOC has been gradually working its way through a backlog of cases thrown up by the more than 1,200 samples it re-tested from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 in the build-up to the Rio Olympics.

The euro spiked up about 2 U.S. cents at the start of the week to more than $1.32, but the dollar has been gradually working its way back.

The problem for the progressives is that their traditional constituency has not followed suit, but has been attracted by the appeals of the new populist right, which, in response to its success in the working class, has gradually been shifting its position from its original nationalist neoliberalism towards welfare chauvinism and welfare populism.