Sentence examples for is rather gradual from inspiring English sources

While the relative change was also significant for non-emergencies, the emergence of the call anomaly is rather gradual and spans seven or more hours, in contrast with the jump-decay pattern lasting only three to five hours for emergencies (Figs. 1B, File S1, Figs. I and J).

This increase is rather gradual initially, but becomes more rapid as onset approaches.

The distribution of expansion sizes at any age is rather gradual; that is, there is a large proportion of expansions of intermediate sizes, ranging from smallest detectable (typically about 10 molecules) up to those more than 1000 molecules.

Because I'd just finished Mystic River [directing], I was mostly interested in being behind the camera, figuring that my retirement would be rather gradual, and then some day they'll say, get out from behind the camera, and I'll go into the sunset.

According to the census data released by Statistics Canada, geodemographic changes in each LHIN were rather gradual every year.

In fact, the transition from the lateral to the perpendicular membrane region can be rather gradual, as the spheres will bridge the groove by forming a cluster.

Although they did indicate some variability in the contrast across the investigated region, this variability was rather gradual thus implying the spatial distribution of the sample thickness rather than the differences in the atomic numbers.

Further, the transition from the growth phase to expansion onset is rather sudden, rather than a gradual increase from onset of the growth phase (Fig. 7).

The goal is rather to obtain a slow, gradual correction of PNa levels since the risk for hyponatremic encephalopathy is limited and outweighed by the likelihood of OD [229].

The majority of these studies has focused on dense forest ecosystems, however, a large share of the terrestrial surface is rather characterized by ecosystems with gradual transitions in vegetation density, such as Savannas.

The goal is rather to obtain a slow, gradual correction of PNa levels since the risk for hyponatremic encephalopathy is limited and outweighed by the likelihood of OD [ 229].