Also, some appear suddenly (like a visitation), others build up gradually, piece by piece over time in an incremental process.

It is a valuable first step in an incremental process of reform, and as such it should not be allowed to slip away.

This is an ongoing incremental process to revise the language definition, producing a new revision once per year.

But everything in this seven-year incremental process has taken time, inching forward and slipping back.

By the end of the project, perhaps the most important message to have emerged was that language development is an incremental, integrated process.

That is bound to be an incremental process, but not beyond the capability of human intelligence.

"In what is necessarily an incremental process, he's moved an incremental step."

He wants abortion "to vanish in America" but says that will be an incremental process.

It seemed a tiny part of an incremental, long-term process, as China engaged with the outside world.

It is an incremental process, rather than a big bang or a sudden shock.