1.   A balding red-faced man walked down the steps from the doorway.

2.   An increment is a small step from the existing position.

3.   Gloria lead Dot up the outside steps from the basement to look at the cotton flags flapping in the sun.

4.   It is a short step from here to the dramatic parallelism associated with a masterly speech maker.

5.   It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory.

6.   She came trotting down the steps from the library.

7.   The cottage is just steps from the beach.

8.   She took a hesitant step back from the door.

9.   So it is a comparatively simple step from locating the sea bottom to locating a shoal of fish.

10.   It was a short step from encoding music on compact disc to encoding information a computer could read.