1.   A first step to improvement for work-inhibited children occurs when they begin to seek assistance.

2.   Breeze, who had hatched a good many herself, quickened her steps to a run, for her two friends were waiting.

3.   Critical assessment of long held beliefs is the first step to new interpretation of historical events and other so called scientific truths.

4.   For each member of the group, a small change of habit was the first step to an identity of its own.

5.   From shrinking the aircraft, it was but a small step to shrinking the airline.

6.   From there it was a short step to instant, if short-lived, celebrity.

7.   From there it was only a short step to Deciding to publish a title about the technology.

8.   He said the proposed Marketing arrangement represents only a preliminary step to a possible weapons technology deal, not the deal itself.

9.   He went up the steps to the platform.

10.   I begin to wail and Connie looks worried and returns with little funny steps to his corner.