| very | 32 | degree |
| sometimes | 31 | degree |
| usually | 20 | degree |
| change → be → gradual | 841 |
| change → be → more gradual | 46 |
| change → be → gradual process | 13 |
| change → be likely to → be gradual | 10 |
| change → be → gradual one | 6 |
| change → be designed to be → gradual | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.117 | 0.659 | 0.224 |
| Raw frequency | 919 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.648 |
| Modifier score | 0.719 |
| Perplexity | 154.411 |