"But this country has come out of a 13-year war and we cannot wait for everything to be ready for us. As the Syrian people, we will try to rebuild everything little by little."

“But every day, little by little, there was a feeling of something not being right.”

Gauff said she had had reservations about playing in the kingdom but agreed to go ahead and compete, believing "you have to start little by little" for change to happen.

In the U.S. they managed to save, little by little.

“It’s still scary thinking about where things will go, but no matter what, he keeps chipping away at it. And the business keeps growing little by little.”