They have scoured the countryside looking for pieces for the engine and wings and they have slowly but surely built the thing up to what we see today,

It looks to have been laterally pushed, not scoured in back with dirt being removed in pieces. You can see levee material, some distance pushed inside the floodwall area, like a bulldozer pushed it.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

He didn't put in the summer miles he wanted to put in, but he's slowly but surely coming back,

One by one they have slowly but surely been dismissed by the courts or withdrawn by the plaintiffs,

I still see lots of things we can fine-tune. I think we're slowly but surely getting a little bit tighter and executing better. It sounds funny, when you're 11-and-0, but we've played some bad stretches of basketball and still been able to overcome that. Our goal is to eliminate that and become more consistent.