"gradually" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These were removed in the late 1980s, although the mess building remained, with personnel moving into housing in the growing suburbs that gradually encroached on the site.
- During this period, French settlers began to explore the region and establish settlements that gradually encroached on Natchez territory.
- While many of the roadways remain, the concrete has cracked, and nature is gradually encroaching.
- Forest gradually encroached on the grasslands and the water table subsided.
- Visual loss typically starts at the periphery and may gradually encroach on central vision.
- The desert is gradually encroaching on surrounding agricultural areas.
- An unidentified enemy is gradually encroaching on the country lands and Cromis appears to be surveying their progress.
- Closer were silver threads of river and silver patches of sea, and the dark green tint of life gradually encroaching.
- The plots move through stages in which conventional crops predominate at first, but then wild species of useful plants and trees are encouraged to encroach gradually.
- Musical sound for its own sake gradually encroached, and libretto writing became the back-office labor of a larger operatic industry.
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