It is no longer necessary to ask what the distant scene might be : one step at a time is enough.
It is quite right, of course, to take one step at a time.
One thing led to another, one step at a time, with each music-related essay seeming to be a last gasp.
The method applied in analysing the data was to proceed one step at a time, from meanings through to meaning structures, and eventually to the relationships between those meaning structures.
The imperative verb, because it is a clausal head, is argued to move one step at a time through the clause, up to this high position.
We are of course taking one step at a time in that diplomatic effort.
One step at a time, when 5 million workers will be left without any protection whatsoever as regards conditions in which they are employed!
And now, after 50 years, we are told to take one step at a time!
