The men had to pull harder on the way back, against an incoming tide, and we made more gradual progress.

China responded that it would show "gradual progress and voluntarily reform China's exchange rate regime".

They made gradual progress down the African coast, each voyage reaching a point further along than the last.

Not in a straight line, but gradual progress in fits and starts.

There's a black middle class that has experienced gradual progress.

As a result gradual progress was just another utopia.

Today, nothing is left to chance as television news programs plot the gradual south-to-north progress here of the "blossom front."

This is a process that can only make gradual progress.

We have to set more modest targets and be grateful for any gradual progress made.

Many fans drift into and out of groups rather than making a gradual progress.