Adverb
a little bit at a time
Source: WordNetAs there was no open opposition to Aryanism from the beginning, it grew in stages and made us degraded. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages. Edwin Louis Cole
This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation. Albert Szent-Györgyi
Since we cannot defeat Israel in war we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel. Yasser Arafat
the research structure has developed piecemeal Source: Internet