When we take a step forward, therefore, it has to be a big enough step, not half a step or an inching forward.
Work has been inching forward, but it has taken a very long time to get any of the longdistance footpaths fully cleared and established.
Although the matter is now, possibly, inching its way towards a resolution, this has taken far too long.
Meanwhile, that country is inching closer to the abyss.
The rights of way review committee has proceeded by agreement, inching forward over the years, and sometimes managing to bring together disparate and conflicting interests.
The evidence shows that, even then, the bardic steamroller was inching forward through debates.
Whether that union was arrived at by inching our way forward or by taking great strides was left to succeeding politicians and others to determine.
There was an inching forward, and improvements in the standard of living of many developing countries.
