slowly but surely

/sləʊli bʌt ʃʊəli/

/sloʊli bʌt ʃʊɹli/

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slowly but surely

[PHRASE]

with gradual progress, steadily, and consistently over time

Examples

1. It might seem healthy, but if you look real close, you’ll see a virus that is slowly but surely eating away it’s purchasing power every day.

2. Slowly but surely, its range got smaller and smaller

3. Stars explode, mountains erode, and buildings, plants, and animals are all slowly but surely pulverized into fine grey powder.

4. It turns out, Saturn's magnetic fields are slowly but surely draining away the rings, so we're lucky to visit the rings now, because every 30 minutes, they lose enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and if we arrived 300 million years in the future, we'd miss them entirely.