Example sentences of "gradually [v-ing] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire had been a constant hazard in woollen mills from their earliest days , as a result of the large amount of grease and oils used gradually soaking into the wooden floors . |
| 2 | WARNER CLASSICS — Warner Classics is only gradually getting into the mid-price market . |
| 3 | They surged through the ward , laden with flowers and magazines , gradually dispersing into the various rooms . |
| 4 | To return to the second point about church growth made at the end of the second chapter , ‘ demand ’ is not the only factor in church growth ; one must also consider supply , and the Free Church was gradually coming into the position where it could service the new demand . |
| 5 | ‘ Thermal ’ is a word gradually slipping into the past . |
| 6 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |