| gradually | 6 | manner |
| only then | 5 | temporal |
| temporarily | 3 | degree |
| sanction → be → eased | 99 |
| sanction → be → relaxed | 22 |
| sanction → be → loosened | 9 |
| sanction → be → softened | 6 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.150 | 0.671 | 0.179 |
| Raw frequency | 136 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.624 |
| Modifier score | 0.410 |
| Perplexity | 53.203 |