In formal remarks here, Mr. Bernanke explained a viewpoint that had taken shape gradually over several months.
The business model began to take shape, gradually, in the eighties; it solidified a decade ago, when a writer's strike recalibrated Hollywood's tolerance for risk.
In addition, business-to-customer (B2C) home delivery markets have taken shape gradually, because virtual stores have risen and developed, e.g. mail-order, TV marketing, e-commerce.
Unfortunately Mr. Diggins does not systematically develop these ideas; they take shape gradually over the course of the book, interrupted again and again by his pressing sense that Lincoln's achievement is at risk.
The findings, in the current issue of Science, back a theory of planet formation that fell out of favor decades ago, when it was replaced by a scenario in which the gas giants took shape more gradually.
The production gradually took shape.
From the 1890s a welfare state gradually took shape.
Along these lines a eucharistic theology gradually took shape in the apostolic and early church without much controversy or formulation.
Layer by layer, like sheets of phyllo dough on a streudel, the sculpture that had been designed on a nearby desktop computer gradually took shape.
While he does an excellent job of showing how the new order gradually took shape, his analysis does leave space for a continuing debate on the reasons for the new regime's stability.
The solution gradually took shape as he lay in bed watching the play of light and shadow on the floor, wall, and ceiling of his bedroom, which by then was in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn.
