The coefficients decrease rapidly at first, but then decrease slowly.
Our entire family was slowly, but surely, becoming a bilingual team.
As the chamber inflates slowly, the internal pressure increases.
The effects of the crisis slowly paralysed the entire economy.
The proportion of relational words decreases abruptly at first, then more slowly.
Rather, the changing narrative styles probably evolved slowly over the yearlong intervention, through repeated reminders and discussions.
Starting slowly in the 1860s, more pastoralists erected wire fences and within a decade the number was growing rapidly (figure 1).
Rather than being a slowly changing woodland landscape it has undergone revolutionary changes.