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Meanings of by small degrees in English

By a short distance.

        Usage of by small degrees in English
        1
        People jockeying for position, nudging their way across the flow, pressing forward or backward by small degrees.
        Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
        2
        Mr, Peabody worked his way up by small degrees, from a clerk in America to a banker in London.
        Thrift
        3
        He had begun by small degrees, just taking a nip now and then, till he had become-andthat very rapidly- aharddrinker.
        Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor
        4
        Translate: "and understand to what end the New Comedy was adopted, which by small degrees degenerated into a mere show of skill in mimicry."
        Meditations
        5
        By small degrees it gathered pace.
        An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestraine...