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Meaning of little by little | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

A small amount at a time.

Examples

“"[…]Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this.[…]"”
“Little by little his head cleared, and he began once more to take a personal interest in the battle.”
“Cos little by little / We gave you everything / You ever dreamed of. / Little by little / The wheels of your life / Have slowly fallen off.”
“Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city.”
“What came instead over the following years were many of the same projects delivered individually to little-by-little add capacity.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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