1. A little bit at a time
   - piecemeal, bit by bit, in stages 
2. By a short distance
   - by inches, by small degrees

Encyclopedia: Little by little

• a hundred times
• a Kempis
• a la mode
• A level
• a little
• a lot
• a million times
• a month of Sundays
• a posteriori
• a priori
• A road
• a trifle
• A'man
• A-bomb
• A-frame
• A-horizon
• A-list
• a-ok
• a-okay
• A-one
• A-scan ultrasonography
• A-team
• A. A. Michelson
• A. A. Milne
• A. Conan Doyle