1) Try to improve your lifestyle a bit at a time.

2) Get moving, a bit at a time.

3) If your child gets upset, comb it a bit at a time, but do not leave the oil on for more than 24 hours.

4) Reducing rates a bit at a time,[http:///a bit at a time.html] it keeps cutting until the economy turns around.

5) Don't try to do everything at once; take it a bit at a time.

6) The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.

7) On Monday they even tested a backup procedure— canting the shovel at the end of the probe's robotic arm and shaking it to dribble soil a bit at a time.

8) The origin of mammals is exceptionally well understood, and there is a whole series of fossils forming a nice transformation series that shows how mammals evolved a bit at a time.

9) The hypothetical boiled frog is a useful metaphor for a very real problem: the difficulty of responding to disasters that creep up on you a bit at a time.

10) The most likely explanation for the comet-like feature is that the star's solar wind—actually a stream of charged particles—is evaporating the gas giant a bit at a time, astronomers say.

11) I thought I'd try wading into loneliness the way you enter the sea, easing myself into the bone-chilling cold a bit at a time — first toes, then calves, then legs.