In his second year at the bar his prospects began to brighten.

It began invariably in low tones, almost conversational, and then gradually worked up to high, shrill appeals to God and man.

Then gradually he began to pull away.

By the 16th century, a cappella polyphony had further developed, but gradually, the cantata began to take the place of a cappella forms.

However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

After three years of consistent use across different platforms, the BBC began to drop the BBCi brand gradually ; on 6 May 2004, the BBC website was renamed bbc. co. uk, after the main URL used to access the site.

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

During the 1960s the political atmosphere began to gradually change, and attention was once again directed to Chaplin's films instead of his political views.

With the climate of change throughout Eastern Europe during the 1980s, the communist hegemony was challenged ( at the same time, the Milošević government began to gradually concentrate Yugoslav power in Serbia and calls for free multi-party elections were becoming louder.

As the price of players gradually came down, the CD began to gain popularity in the larger popular and rock music markets.

This began a series of letters between Cyril and Nestorius which gradually became more strident in tone.

The House of Bourbon replaced the House of Habsburg in Spain in 1700 and introduced economic reforms that gradually began to revive trade in Santo Domingo.

Although film production began again in 1915, it was on a reduced scale, and the biggest companies gradually retired from production, to concentrate on film distribution and exhibition.

The area, roughly encompassing the later geographical meanings of Flanders, had been inhabited by Celts until Germanic people began immigrating by crossing the Rhine, either gradually driving them south-or westwards, or rather merging with them.

Aristotle accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 BC, and knowledge of the spherical Earth gradually began to spread beyond the Hellenistic world from then on.

Treatment of vernaculars began gradually during the High Middle Ages, with isolated works such as the First Grammatical Treatise, but became influential only in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

This was gradually alleviated as Spain and other Christian powers began to check Muslim naval dominance in the Mediterranean after the 1571 victory at Lepanto, but it would be a scourge that continued to afflict the country even in the next century.

The horror film style has changed over time, but in 1996 Scream set off a " chain of copycats ", leading to a new variety of teenage, horror movies .< ref name = Stack > This new approach to horror films began to gradually earn more and more income as seen in the progress of Scream movies ; the first movie earned six million and the third movie earned one-hundred and one million.

From 1946, Dirks ' son, John Dirks, gradually began doing more of the work on The Captain and the Kids.

' Thus, gradually he began to lead to war.

During the mid-1950s, Marvin gradually began playing more important roles.

The egalitarian Mayan society of pre-royal centuries gradually gave way to a society controlled by a wealthy elite that began building large ceremonial temples and complexes.

As the temperatures in the seas increased, the larger animals of the early Mesozoic gradually began to disappear while smaller animals of all kinds, including lizards, snakes, and perhaps primates, evolved.

Though MySQL began as a low-end alternative to more powerful proprietary databases, it has gradually evolved to support higher-scale needs as well.

He believed that myths began as allegorical descriptions of nature, but gradually came to be interpreted literally: for example, a poetic description of the sea as " raging " was eventually taken literally, and the sea was then thought of as a raging god.

US cities began using hollowed logs in the late 1700s through the 1800s.

In the late 1700s and early 1800s, pioneers began settling in the area they called ‘‘ the Ford ’’ because it was a place where travelers could cross the river.

The area where the city of Kettering now lies was settled and began as farmland from the late 1700s to the mid 1800s.

Zydeco combines elements of an older American musical style that began in the late 1700s, Cajun music, a style that consists of French fiddle tunes, Irish Celtic fiddle tunes, German button accordion, Latin rhythms, and Appalachian styles.

Though records of chanterelles being eaten date back to the 1500s, they first gained widespread recognition as a culinary delicacy with the spreading influence of French cuisine in the 1700s, where they began appearing in palace kitchens.

Italian painters, sculptors, composers, and architects also dominated the Baroque movement that began near the end of the Renaissance and ended in the 1700s.

During the 1700s, Caerphilly began growing into a market town, and during the 19th century as the south Wales valleys underwent massive growth through industrialisation, so to the towns ' population grew.

The Russian Mafia can be traced back to Russia's imperial period, which began in the 1700s, in the form of banditry and thievery.

Woolwich Township began to be settled in the late 1700s, with a certain William Wallace being one of the first settlers arriving in 1798.

Many American artisans, including successful silversmiths, began to incorporate industrial approaches to their craft in the late 1700s with the adoption of “ wage labor, the division of labor, subcontracting, and the move toward standardized output .” One individual in the vanguard of America's shift towards more industrial methods was Paul Revere, who emphasized the production of increasingly standardized items later in his career with the use of a silver flatting mill, increased numbers of salaried employees, and other advances.

In the 1700s, P. pinea began being introduced as an ornamental tree to other Mediterranean climate regions of the world, and is now often found in gardens and parks in South Africa, California, and Australia.

The language has been written in the Latin script since Danish colonization began in the 1700s.

The first descriptions of Greenlandic date from the 1600s, and with the arrival of Danish missionaries in the early 1700s, and the beginning of Danish colonialism in Greenland, the compilation of dictionaries and description of grammar began.

Beginning in the mid 1700s, wealthy elites began to construct large, stately homes and neat, ordered gardens with the guise of mapping superiority and exclusive knowledge onto the landscape.

The Second Great Awakening or Kentucky Revival began in the late 1700s and continued into the early 19th century.

Non-natives reached the region in the late 1700s, after which native populations began to decline rapidly, due to epidemics and the decimation of the bison herds on which they depended.

Sweden and especially Russia began to launch galleys and various rowed vessels during the Great Northern War in the 1700s.

Pantomime that looked similar to how it is known today began in the early 1700s.