Implemented gradually over time this fiscal tightening would be almost invisible.

The signed framework agreement would be implemented gradually over ten years.

Resolution recommended that pay rises be implemented gradually at a pace suggested by the commission, but the government has set a specific target and timescale instead.

To manage lobster populations, more regulations and restrictions, geared towards achieving sustainable populations, are implemented gradually southward.

Proper measures for waste water disposal will not immediately be put in place, rather, they will be implemented gradually from 2020 to 2040.

You improve gradually and learn from your mistakes.

In fact, matters did not even improve gradually.

The 1990s and early 2000s saw conditions improve gradually.

The process was improved gradually but it was expensive, only performed on those of significance and status.

The decision marks a breakthrough in relations, which have been improving gradually in the past five years after four decades of hostility.

The risk appeared to increase gradually in line with increased consumption.

The shell has 6 convex whorls which increase gradually in size.

The $600,000 estate tax exemption was to increase gradually to $1 million by the year 2006.

The five whorls of the teleoconch show prominent axial ribs that increase gradually in size at the transition between the protoconch and teleoconch.

Total capacity will at first be 6,000 but will increase gradually throughout 2007.

While these requirements are being introduced gradually over the course of the decade, investors are putting pressure banks to take early action.

But he insists the changes could be introduced gradually, using existing structures.

It was going to be introduced gradually over seven years, but will now be fully operational in 12 months.

At home, changes will work if introduced gradually.

Other changes were introduced gradually.

Instead, both brands will move gradually upmarket.

It includes pieces that take a very long time to move gradually from one kind of music to another kind.

His own politics are evolving, moving gradually from anti-independence to a soft radical nationalist stance.

But the process moves gradually.

Served cool and left to warm slowly, it was flinty and blue, moving gradually towards earthiness and strawberries.

The power cuts are expected to progress gradually.

You've done nothing for six weeks so make sure you progress gradually.

They started out as a covers band but have progressed gradually to a healthy proportion of originals.

After achieving the status of an urban settlement in 1950, the city had progressed gradually over the years.

Survey responses suggest that investment will fall by 21 per cent in the current quarter before recovering gradually.

The creative arts and design was one of several areas to see a decline in 2012, but which have recovered gradually since.

The island recovered gradually, reaching a population of some 10,000 in the 17th century, which was still concentrated mostly in the interior.

Such memories can be recovered gradually, through active search and reconstruction, or they can come to mind spontaneously, without active search.

He recovered gradually and was restored to health.

Your tax liability starts to reduce gradually after three years.

These programs aim to reduce gradually the amount of harmful chemicals released into the atmosphere.

The production of speedboats started to reduce gradually from 1923.

Illegal logging, tobacco cultivation and grazing by cattle was scheduled to reduce gradually with the declaration of the park.

However, in past times of difficulty, prices have reduced gradually over the period of a year.

The research organisation also said that real wages should 'begin to rise gradually' on the back of job creation, providing respite to cash-strapped households.

I think prices will rise gradually from now, perhaps by 14% or 15% over the next five years.

I have noted that the nil rate band will rise gradually to 500,000 between 2017-18 and 2020-21.

For those earning between 21,000 and 41,000 the interest rate will rise gradually by 0.15 percentage points per additional 1,000 earned.

The houses rise gradually with the street, stepping up about 2 feet every fifth house.