The Greek finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, has said he expects the spreads will narrow gradually.
Peter Sailer, who directed the I.R.S. study, said the results, combined with those of two previous studies, suggested that the substantial gender gap in high-income categories was narrowing gradually.
The frond of A. speciosum narrows gradually to a pointed tip, while that of A. aureum has a broadly rounded end.
Our assumption was that after the implementation of NCMS, the access and utilization of inpatient services at the County hospital would increase gradually and the gap in the access and utilization of services between NCMS and UEBMI would narrow gradually.
Through the oxidation process, the diameters of MWCNTs were narrowed down gradually.
Since the observation that HIV-1 Tat protein could shuttle between cells and the discovery that purified Tat protein could enter cells and translocate into nuclei [ 1], the cell-penetrating activity of Tat has been narrowed down gradually from amino acids 36 72 [ 2], to either amino acids 48 60 [ 3] or amino acids 47 57 [ 4].
D1 BUSINESS DAY C1-13 China Revalues Yuan China said that it would no longer peg its currency strictly to the dollar and that it would permit the yuan to fluctuate within a narrow, gradually shifting band against a basket of foreign currencies, steps that could allow the currency to rise in value.
Equivalent stress nephogram of sclera obtained by simulating different IOP (Fig. 14) showed that as simulated IOP increased, the blue area in posterior portion of scleral FEM gradually expanded and in the meantime, the scope of green area gradually narrowed.
As simulative IOP increased, stress-concentration scope on the posterior half of sclera gradually narrowed; in the meantime, the stress-concentration scope on the anterior half of sclera gradually expanded, and the stress on the LC is mainly concentrated in the central part, suggesting that IOP is mainly concentrated in the anterior part of the eyeball as it increases.
