in stages

Adverb

Meaning

a little bit at a time

Source: WordNet

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As 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

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