But the full scale of what London would face during the construction is only gradually emerging.
But unlike Libya's abrupt disruption, the new sanctions are expected to affect oil markets only gradually.
If the devil is in the details, he (or she) will be revealed only gradually over time.
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PPARs have been known to exist for 14 years, but their suspected role in metabolic syndrome emerged only gradually.
Overseas investment by Indians has been opened up, but only gradually, and with companies given priority over banks or individuals.
India's own telecoms commission had wanted to liberalise only gradually, by allowing just four private operators to bid for licences.
When China joined the World Trade Organisation in December 2001, it agreed to open up its financial industry, but only gradually.
After days of dire warnings by administration officials, the president told reporters the effects of the cuts would be felt only gradually.
Only gradually do we work out what, or who, is missing: their young son, who was killed by a car some months before.
"In the past, members of the House of Lords have been added only gradually, and become socialised in the chamber's practices and conventions, " it noted.
He advises them to develop a modern financial system slowly, adopting innovations only as they are proven elsewhere and lowering barriers to foreign capital only gradually.
But the rules are unknown and the stakes high: this is a duel to the death, a fact only gradually revealed to its two main players.
The Times's managers insist that they will now have to sack about 10% of its workforce, and only gradually bring other striking workers back on board.
As the economy continues to struggle, travel-budget cuts may pose challenges for the hotel industry, which has only gradually rebuilt its occupancy levels and room rates since 2009.
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The big difference between the two novels emerges only gradually, but it is a crucial distinction that involves Mr Wolfe's romantic fascination, even obsession, with what constitutes male courage.
On May 23rd, Jorge Guzman, the finance minister, suddenly resigned: according to some accounts, he opposed proposals by Mr Noboa for fuel subsidies to be phased out only gradually.
Mr Cardoso's strategy was thus to use foreign capital, attracted partly by privatisation, to buy time while he tackled the public sector, something which his officials always insisted could be done only gradually.
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Economic activities unknown to Nehru, such as software development, back-office outsourcing, call centres and the like are flourishing unchecked, though more traditional sectors are still being freed only gradually from the suffocating red tape of the old licence raj.
Noticing the circadian pattern of Charles B's depression, Dr Wehr asked him to get through a night without sleeping, and then to increase his nightly sleep only gradually, so that for almost a week he was awake during those crucial early-morning hours.
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The Committee now expects a somewhat slower pace of recovery over coming quarters than it did at the time of the previous meeting and anticipates that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually toward levels that the Committee judges to be consistent with its dual mandate.
Only very gradually has his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, begun to make moves to release the country from its self-imposed, Soviet-style isolation.
He said the economic growth was weaker than expected, it would stay that way, and that unemployment would only come down gradually.
While critics accuse him of keeping his grip on all the real reins of power, he has maintained that responsibilities can only be handed over gradually because of the massive corruption and mismanagement of previous civilian governments.
That's exactly how a death tax that was originally sold in 1916 as hitting only billionaires like the Rockefellers gradually began to apply to middle-class families who own, say, a successful auto-repair shop or invested wisely during the stock market booms of the 1980s and 1990s.
Thus it gradually cut itself off from the only root of the power by which it might gain that role.
But analysts have said across the board that the measures will mostly likely only boost growth temporarily, with the effects gradually seen in the second and third quarter.
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These credits, however, run only through the end of 2007, and are reduced gradually to zero as the average price of oil rises.
There is certain fatalism to it all, with the U.S. gradually accepting the hard reality that it can only be driven by events rather than helping to drive them.
Hafeez and Farhat took their time initially but gradually accelerated to post a century partnership from only 123 balls as the home side had cause to rue JP Duminy's failure to hold the early chance offered by Hafeez from the bowling of Albie Morkel.
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