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Significados de by small degrees em inglês

By a short distance.

Uso de by small degrees em inglês
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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...
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Mr, Peabody worked his way up by small degrees, from a clerk in America to a banker in London.
Thrift
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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
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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
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By small degrees it gathered pace.
An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestraine...