Perhaps the most trying thing about watching children grieve is that it happens incrementally: they grieve as they grow.
It had been happening incrementally for the past year, but just recently it had taken on a new urgency.
First, they are rarely posed as clearly as this; things tend to happen incrementally or interstitially.
This happened incrementally, with two big jumps.
IT happened incrementally, and for a long time few realized the magnitude and import of what was going on.
And that can happen incrementally.
His decision to break up his holdings happened incrementally.
As for networking, it seems to happen incrementally.
It's been happening incrementally since Brave New World.
He argued that "oil is only part of the equation" and that "Saudi Arabia will change but change will happen incrementally."