When a market is in the process of bottoming, the volume will often be gradually declining because most of the sellers are out of the market and potential buyers have no reason to buy.

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If you shampoo less often, your scalp will gradually produce less oil.

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If symptoms improve after the first five to 10 minutes (as they often do), you can gradually increase the length and effort of your workout up to about 80 percent to 90 percent of your usual routine.

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However, other colliery sites in the area are gradually coming back to life, often as business parks, nature conservation areas or in the case of the old Ollerton pit site, an "energy village" of housing, offices and light industry all built along environmentally conscious lines.

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Scrape the bottom of the pan often with your spatula, and decrease the heat gradually as more and more moisture cooks out of the jam.

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While cohesiveness builds gradually in face-to-face teams, virtual teams often feel like no more than globally dispersed individuals working on the same project.

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The current system, where firms gradually deduct the cost of new equipment over time, is complicated and often unfair.

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From then until 1990, when peace of a sort began gradually to take hold, Jim Muir was caught up covering the fascinating and often horrendous twists and turns of a conflict whose many complex elements would erupt in ever-different and more startling ways as the local, regional and international powers slugged it out on Lebanese soil.

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