Adverb
- A small amount at a time.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch. 59:
- Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this.
- 1905, P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's, ch. 13:
- Little by little his head cleared, and he began once more to take a personal interest in the battle.
- 2011 March 6, Jack Healy, "Baghdad Neighborhood Celebrates as a Wall Is Taken Away ↗," New York Times (retrieved 22 Nov 2011):
- 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.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch. 59:
- French: peu à peu, petit à petit
- German: Stück für Stück, nach und nach
- Italian: a poco a poco, man mano
- Portuguese: pouco a pouco, aos poucos
- Russian: понемно́гу
- Spanish: poco a poco
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