They gradually loosened up his telephone privileges over time.
Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.
My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
Everything gradually comes to an end or there's a new challenge around the corner.
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that.
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.
I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.
Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.
It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
Triton, one of neptune's moons, is gradually getting closer to the planet it orbits.
I'm gradually getting rid of all the things I don't need.
China and India's relationship is gradually developing.
I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
Sightholders couldn't make a profit and they gradually started refusing.
I am cautiously confident that we are gradually approaching the home straight as far as our litigation is concerned.