littlebylittle

1. A small amountat a time.
   • 1860 December –1861 August,Charles Dickens, chapter LIX, inGreat Expectations […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861,→OCLC:

     Everything else has gone from me,little by little, but I have kept this.

   • 1905,P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, inThe Head of Kay's:

     Little by little his head cleared, and he began once more to take a personal interest in the battle.

   • 2002, “Little by Little”, inHeathen Chemistry, performed byOasis:

     Coslittle by little / We gave you everything / You ever dreamed of. /Little by little / The wheels of your life / Have slowly fallen off.

   • 2011 March 6, Jack Healy, “Baghdad Neighborhood Celebrates as a Wall Is Taken Away”, inNew York Times, retrieved22 November 2011:

     Iraq's government has been removing blast wallslittle by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city.

   • 2021 December 15, Philip Haigh, “Remaining ECML upgrades in the 'really difficult' category”, inRAIL, number946, page52:

     What came instead over the following years were many of the same projects delivered individually tolittle-by-little add capacity.

• “little by little”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

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