The phrase "a block at a time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method of tackling tasks or challenges incrementally, focusing on one part before moving to the next.
Example: "When learning a new language, it's best to take it a block at a time to avoid feeling overwhelmed."
Alternatives: "one step at a time" or "piece by piece".
Besides Studioplex, the development group has built 51 new single- and two-family homes, and rehabilitated another 35, sweeping through the neighborhood a block at a time.
With sensory training, motor development and protective techniques like the use of the long cane, Ms. Kramer teaches Ms. Romero how to be safe, confident and efficient in her movements, step by step, a block at a time.
The last two random effects were included because the rhizobium treatments were applied to half a block at a time, rather than to individual plants.
He was almost as tough this time around, but what was impressively different was the Yankee batters' patient, one-Lego-block-at-a-time approach, which produced a single run in the second and another in the third, and two more in the fifth.
Keep your left finger on the L1 button at all times and practice being in a block at all times.
They have been able to get only one unnatural protein building block at a time substituted for a natural one.
If Paterson is to be reborn, Mr. Corrado believes, it will be a grass-roots resurrection that happens one block at a time.
Re "Rebuilding a City One Block at a Time," by Torie Osborn (Notes From Los Angeles, Op-Ed, April 29): New York, too, is faced with the choice of how best to rebuild a portion of the city that was destroyed by violence.
The shooting took place on a quiet block at a time when few people were out, but the police said that several "ear witnesses" reported hearing an angry exchange that included comments that indicated to investigators that Mr. Ross might have known his attacker.
The redevelopment plan calls for subdevelopers to build a full block at a time to ensure that design standards are met and related infrastructure repairs and parking are addressed, according to Mr. Fishman, who said that before the redevelopment plan was drawn up, individual developers showed little interest in Asbury Park.
Priscilla Almodovar, the president and chief executive of New York State's housing finance agencies, said Nassau County was using a targeted approach — "not just rehabbing a home for the sake of rehabbing a home," but repairing entire neighborhoods "one block at a time".
