"gradually" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The area was gradually annexed to the City of Calgary between 1906 and 1912.
- The territory subsequently became a colony of Spain, though parts of the territory were gradually annexed by the United States.
- After the Spanish colonization, these ceased to exist as the Philippines was gradually annexed as part of the Spanish Empire and the monarchs of Spain were adopted.
- In the early nineteenth century, it was gradually annexed in British India as Jubbulpore and incorporated as a major cantonment town.
- The resulting suburb was gradually annexed by Portland beginning in the 1960s and completing in 1994.
- The area had been gradually annexed by Czarist Russia in the second half of the 19th century.
- Some remained under the control of the Macedonian Kingdom and until 146 BC, when the Greek peninsula was gradually annexed by Rome.
- The region of Svaneti was gradually annexed in 1857-59.
- Alsace was gradually annexed to the kingdom of France during the reign of Louis XIV.
- Most of the boroughs were originally independent municipalities but were gradually annexed from 1901 to 1975.
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