little by little in English

gradually, slowly

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1. Little by little the snow disappeared.

2. He is recovering little by little.

3. Little by little, he became more forthcoming.

4. Little by little, the water dried up.

5. Then little by little words are exchanged.

6. His English is improving little by little.

7. 3 Little by little, a collaborative response appeared.

8. Little by little he usurped his boss's authority.

9. Little by little the bird builds its nest.

10. Little by little does the trick. Aesop 

11. Little by little I learned Leslie's recent military history.

12. Little by little we advanced to the inspection point.

13. Little by little he became accepted by the family.

14. These things, therefore, became little by little private property.

15. Whisk in remaining 2 tablespoons butter little by little.

16. Little by little I became more fluent in German.

17. Little by little, Quinn adapted to his new life.

18. Little by little he dropped hints, but no details.

19. Little by little, the smoke was dissipated by the breeze.

20. Little by little, though, we were able to break down prejudice.

21. Little by little it gets colder until eventually it approaches absolute zero.

22. No constant stirring over a flame while adding broth, little by little.

23. Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition subsided.

24. Farmers pay us little by little over time, covering most of our expenses.

25. We manage to pump the whole story out of him little by little.

26. Little by little, Michael grew accustomed to reading books about magic and Satanic rituals.

27. But the wealth of the one who gathers it little by little* will increase.

28. Little by little there emerged minute royal principalities, then aristocratic towns, linked together by trade.

29. Little by little she came to understand why he had behaved the way he did.

30. Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.

31. Yes, little by little our reputation is built up through the deeds that we perform.

32. But yet another Paradise prospect presents itself —getting to know the whole earth, little by little.

33. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine.

34. The fog had disappeared from the horizon and then little by little from the whole sky.

35. Then, little by little, step by step, their dreams grow with the size of their business.

36. “It was just like seeing her drown little by little, and there was nothing I could do.

37. Bingo broke me in and taught me the ropes, and little by little I became his boy.

38. She cried amid a redoubled uproar of laughter and bravoes , which little by little overspread the whole Hippodrome.

39. I run my fingers over this invisible object, and little by little curiosity gets the better of me.

40. Little by little, journalism is ceasing to acknowledge the true characters in the story, due to ulterior motives.

41. They soon grew, little by little, until they were the size of an acorn; which they in fact resembled.

42. Little by little, I too became an anarchist, without faith or moral laws, who wanted no God or master.

43. He could get caught up in the story, so to speak, and little by little begin to forget himself.

44. But little by little, as I got better, I started going back to it, trying to remember what happened.

45. And, little by little, the utterly unprecedented thought began buzzing around my cortex, like a gnat in a jar.

46. The Customarily silent Seven Sachs had little by little subdued him to an admiration as mute as it was profound

47. The Customarily silent Seven Sachs had little by little subdued him to an admiration as mute as it was profound

48. The golf closed little by little and transformed into an liman where the alluvia brought by the river made the Delta.

49. So for the next two years, we just watched my son be taken away from me, little by little every day.

50. Little by little, these bizarre and mystical Afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire and the limits of bodily existence.