Japan has experienced a recent and rapid fall in fertility combined with more gradually lengthening life expectancy.

Then gradually lengthen the time that you are away.

Over the next three decades the tour gradually lengthened and globalised.

As we travelled, I held my horse back, letting the distance between us and the rest of the troop gradually lengthen.

Ligaments are only slightly elastic; when under tension, they gradually lengthen.

The wooden handle gradually lengthened and the blade got shorter.

The plane of the hall ceiling beneath which they stood hid the maker until her gradually lengthening figure had descended under its - level.

Program trading was allowed to resume, with some restrictions, and the exchanges were gradually lengthening the trading day.

During the remaining months of the year it gradually lengthens once more.

The net gradually lengthened and began to-tumble toward the troubled atmosphere.