The phrase "in gradual steps" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a process or action that happens slowly or incrementally over time. Example: "She learned to play the piano in gradual steps, starting with basic chords and eventually mastering complex pieces."
At Chelsea Career and Technical High School in Manhattan, where teachers tried out an algebra exam, Margaret Glendis, the math assistant principal, said she liked what she saw — an hour-and-a-half test with only five multipart problems, each of which got harder in gradual steps.
But approaching something like mobile payments will come in gradual steps.
Now is the time for your adult child to learn independence -- in gradual steps, if necessary -- and while still having you around for guidance.
More intensive cooperation in gradual steps is what is required.
In this process, extra functionality is added in gradual steps while keeping existing functionality intact.
Take it in gradual steps.
He eased in by gradual steps, first as premier, then as president, and finally, with Mussolini cheering him on, as King.
Darwin's proposal that such adaptations emerge through time in slow gradual steps was counter-intuitive to some people because it seemed likely that "transitional" forms would have a hard time of it, being neither "fish nor fowl".
Hence, CCR is reached in two gradual steps (one of which is not an emulation) instead of a single complex jump.
That was better than any Chelsea performance in 2015 and, while this was not quite on that level, they are making gradual steps in the right direction again.
Cuba had already begun the move away from Fidel's era in a similar series of gradual steps to that taken in China after the the death of Mao Zedong or Vietnam after the demise of Ho Chi Minh.
