Since then it has gradually reduced its stake.
Meanwhile, it has gradually lowered its forecast of Thailand's economic growth this year, from 6% in January to 4% now.
This century, it has gradually extended its membership beyond the white male Anglo-Saxon overclass: first to Jews, then to Afrikaners, then (only in 1994) to women.
White Plains Hospital Center has offered neonatal intensive care since 1993, when it began treating babies born six weeks prematurely, and it has gradually increased its ability to deal with younger and smaller babies.
It has gradually been reducing its stake in TSB and now owns just 50%, Lloyds said.
Opera Mobile has built its reputation on its Internet browser for mobile devices, but it has gradually expanded that remit to cover other services like apps — and now, music.
It has gradually divested itself of its prominent role in much of the economy from plantations to supermarkets, from office blocks to airlines.
In the year since the Supreme Court handed down its 183-page decision in Citizens United, the liberal objection to it has gradually boiled down to a single sentence: The majority was wrong to grant First Amendment rights to corporations.
The first outages came with its encrypted web search and Google+ in 2011, since when it has gradually taken down Google Docs and Google Maps.
First, it has gradually become apparent that the war on drugs is a flop.
But it has gradually become clear that Russia's government expected more.
