But by degrees, things will return to the way they were in an earlier time.

This led by degrees to a relationship with another human being.

I didn't want to break him in suddenly, but do it by degrees.

He raised his head from the wall and brought it by degrees to its former position.

He continued on and, by degrees, the others followed after him.

Both men knew that figure could be off by ten degrees either way.

We must make sure that the earth does not heat up by more than two degrees.

When the life left a person, it wasn't by degrees.

We did not set out to wage war by degree.

It was worth the pain, though: the power came to him by degrees.

We are still in the stage of the first reading.

Exactly what would happen in the second stage is yet to be worked out.

She is known for her work in film, television and stage.

The show is King's first experience working in television rather than stage.

But in a stage of my life I used to do the same thing a lot.

What she wanted to do was work on a play in a very early stage.

Now that is over we are in the third stage.

There is a similar window on the west side in the middle stage.

Then, in the final stage you don't care what he looks like.

This is something which would need to be decided in the next stage of the process.