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‘A move can be gradual.’

[⟨det move.n⟩ gradual.a]

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In Wikipedia:

They allow a gradual move from paper – based documentation to electronic forms and straight – through – processing as well as upgrading the quality of signature verification in general.
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In the British National Corpus:

It was always the intention that there would be a gradual move from that distribution to one based entirely on S S A, but that’s the current year position, where you’re getting a specific grant, and it is distributed on those, broadly those two factors.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Aside from the specific content, I do find it interesting that the act of blogging is mentioned in a manner that shows the gradual move to acceptance as a mainstream means of news and communication.
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In the British National Corpus:

There was a gradual move away from insistence on the inter-related nature of all social, political and economic problems and a shift towards specialization.
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In Wikipedia:

Ramirez’s work tends to consist of long, slowly changing or static tracks of heavily distorted low – to mid – range noise, with a gradual move over the last several years toward more drone – influenced sounds in addition to his harsh noise work.
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In the British National Corpus:

A great deal of change has been seen in the power drill market over recent years: cordless models have become more popular, and there has also been a gradual move towards variable-speed percussion models, even by the occasional home improver.
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In Wikipedia:

The basic ideology of the Parchamis was one of a gradual move towards socialism in Afghanistan.
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However, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, together with the gradual move from sailing ships to coal – fired steam ships, increased the isolation of the islands, as they were no longer needed as a stopping port for journeys from Europe to the Far East.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

During the Bush administration and the gradual move to Abstinence Only education, teenage pregnancy has risen.
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In Wikipedia:

Due to the declining popularity of music on the AM band, the station began a gradual move towards Talk programming in 1996.
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Wood and charcoal industry held the property rights for this plot of land since the early Meiji period, but the gradual move to other sources of fuel resulted in those company buildings deteriorating.
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“’FREE Advisory services ’” Ecohorts provides free support to farmiing communities who want to make a gradual move to ecological horticulture and organic farm nutirition management through a team of scientists and extenstion workers who are volunteers.
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In Wikipedia:

They stated that improvements in black education and wealth would, over time, ensure a gradual move to majority rule.
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Dr Zhou proposed a gradual move towards increased used of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as a centrally managed global reserve currency Although Dr Zhous ideas have not yet been broadly accepted, leaders meeting in April at the 2009 G – 20 London summit agreed to allow $ 250 Billion of Special Drawing Rights to be created by the IMF, to be distributed globally.
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In the British National Corpus:

This was perfectly acceptable when the only output device was a dot matrix printer but with the gradual move to page printing systems and the introduction of desktop publishing packages the limitations became painfully obvious.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The coinage reflects a gradual move away from highly pagan motifs to non – sectarian ones.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There seems to be a gradual move for the government to take over these large companies and run them, when it was government’ ‘oversight’’ and regulation that caused this crisis to begin with.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He spoke of the need for greater energy efficiency and a gradual move away from fossil fuels.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The Yen’s appreciation of 14.26 % is symptomatic of the gradual unwinding of carry trades in that currency and the gradual move to greater risk aversion amongst leveraged traders.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.