Meanings of gradual diminution in English

He was a perfect master of the art of gradual diminution.

With increased demand for work there is a gradual diminution of the reserve force.

Cold is usually shapeless, I suppose, extending over large spaces equally, or with gradual diminution.

Their numbers have of late increased, but there was a gradual diminution for fifteen years before that.

They are also arranged in zones, in consequence of the gradual diminution of thickness from the centre outwards.

There was no gradual diminution.

There was no sunset as such, just a gradual diminution of light, as the threesome carried the firewood back to the silo.

She attributed the change not so much to a gradual diminution of fortune as to a spiteful wish to annoy his hostess.

And if such stages can be detected, do they afford indications of the gradual diminution in volume which Laplace imagined the sun to experience?

This gradual diminution of the action of gravity, the travellers had been for some time noticing, but they had not yet witnessed its total cessation.

Wittgenstein's force was gaining strength by recruits and fresh corps which he was daily receiving, and by the gradual diminution of that of Saint Cyr.

So we may trace the gradual diminution, but never the entire disappearance, of the excessive "deportment" which is the best known feature of Johnson's style.

"Ah, a gradual diminution of the faculties of attention."