Discontent with the project mounted gradually but steadily as the Energy Department's mismanagement became clearer.

The square is one of the central squares of Pécs, full of monuments, mounting gradually northward.

The track mounted gradually, keeping the house in view.

Ian Rickson's production, gradually mounting in intensity, boasted perfect pitch.

The women's narratives form an inspiration for the sexual abuse and torture of the victims, which gradually mounts in intensity and ends in their slaughter.

Although the symphony has since had few performances, they are gradually mounting as the profile of both the symphony and the composer begins to gain height.

By degrees, mounting gradually over centuries, he inflicted his abhorrence upon the Land, corrupting the Earth-power with Sunbane.

However, the number eleven batsman Hal Hooker stuck with his captain as the score gradually mounted and the opposition's frustrations grew.

Confusion gradually mounts for Gumm.

The opera was forward looking in its structure, with tension gradually mounting, via an exciting prison scene ("a fore-shadowing of romanticism") to a considerable climax.