31.   Dow lived reclusively for a year, but a job as a telemarketer brought her out of her shell, bit by bit.

32.   Ho took the unusual step of placing a lock on the lab freezer, retained the key himself and doled out material for experiments bit by bit.

33.   If it is contact cement, slow and tedious picking at it, bit by bit, is the way.

34.   In clinic and laboratory, fatalism is giving way, bit by bit, to activism.

35.   Insect larvae take apart the corpses of other insects, bit by bit, in a processing chain that ultimately benefits the plant itself.

36.   Kanon lets the action progress at a natural speed, building his characters bit by bit.

37.   Many prominent Bordeaux properties, like some cult wineries in California, release their wines bit by bit.

38.   Meanwhile, the shattered bones are being separated bit by bit from the ancient clay in a lab at the National Museum of Ethiopia and reassembled.

39.   Months later, I realized Dad had passed along his wisdom by example, bit by bit during the years.

40.   Other data discs, like DVDs, CDs and hard drives, transfer data to computers literally bit by bit.