Example sentences of "gradually over a period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Aim to alter your diet gradually over a period of six months .
2 It tends to happen gradually over a period of time .
3 Ben , aged 3 years , started to refuse food gradually over a period of months .
4 Always exercise gently to begin with , building up gradually over a period of time and remembering that there is never any need to strain yourself .
5 Instead of retreating instead of going underground instead of accepting that the situation had become extremely difficult and it was necessary to try and rebuild their organization and their influence gradually over a period of time , they committed their shattered forces to further battles and more or less completed er their destruction .
6 They emerged gradually over a period of half a century , culminating in his book Two New Sciences , which was first published in 1638 , almost a century after the publication of Copernicus 's major work .
7 Begin by exercising moderately for 5–10 minutes per day , and build up gradually over a period of a month .
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