11.   Bit by bit, researchers began to see the biological underpinnings of cancer.

12.   Bit by bit, the Dodgers season is slipping away.

13.   Bit by bit, she had fallen in love with Bay Ridge, a neighborhood deep in the heart of Brooklyn.

14.   Bit by bit, the US military, is being drawn into peacekeeping.

15.   Bit by bit, things were controlled and last week was excellent.

16.   Bit by bit, through groundwater and mineralization, the bones were replaced over time with a quartzlike rock known as chert.

17.   Bit by bit, we have been relinquishing the very essence of what makes a home.

18.   Bit by bit, you discover a terrace overlooking a clear stream and then the island in the center of it.

19.   Bit by bit, as the years went on, he would recite varying accounts of his service.

20.   Bit by bit, we pulled line from the open reel and let the force of the drift draw the bait farther out and down.