It gradually developed its own officials, who paralleled those of the commune.
Linked at first with Paris, it gradually developed its own balletic idiom from native as well as imported sources.
Initially considered gimmicky and insubstantial, it gradually developed a reputation for higher quality while increasing its circulation and advertising revenues at a time when few papers were experiencing growth.
It gradually developed into a vibrant democracy.
Really, we just put one foot in front of the other and it gradually developed.
It gradually developed an elaborate system of casuistry resting upon the Torah (the Law, or the Pentateuch) and its approved commentaries, especially the Talmud (commentaries on the Torah), which was regarded by many as equal to the Bible in authority.
By the first decade of the 20th century, Japan had emerged as a major military and naval power, and it gradually developed into an important trading partner with the rest of the world.
The town was located about midway between Maʾrib in the south and Petra in the north, and it gradually developed by Roman and Byzantine times into an important trade and religious centre.
"At first my story was a modern 'Charterhouse,' " Bertolucci explained in an interview in the Cahiers in 1965, "but then it gradually developed into 'Sentimental Education.' " Fabrizio is not a revolutionary; he is playing at being a revolutionary, because that is what young people in the postwar middle class do.
With exceptionally unusual favorable upper level winds and slightly below average, if marginally warm, water temperatures from 24 to 26 °C (75 to 79 °F), it gradually developed, resembling a subtropical storm by the 24th.
We had great conversations, but it really gradually developed into a romantic relationship.
