Inch by inch the disturbance rises as if the desert were rising in obedience to some upthrusting force beneath.
The lorry crept up on us in weight-carrying almost hundredweight by hundredweight, inch by inch in width, foot by foot in length, almost unnoticed.
It is disinheritance by progressive severance and a wounding inch by inch.
Such improvements as there were at the time were fought over inch by inch, all the way.
All the indications are that we have had movement, inch by inch, only in surrender to pressures and arising from a fear of militancy.
It will not satisfy those who will continue pressing, inch by inch, tonne by tonne, to put up the size and weight of lorries.
It had to be wrung out word by word and inch by inch.
I do not propose to go over his speech inch by inch, because that would take a long time.
