month by month
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- idiom
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mes a mes
- If you look at month by month data, what's the trend like or the trend line?
So let's look at the big financial events of the year, month by month and the lessons that we learned.
- So let's look at the big financial events of the year, month by month and the lessons that we learned.
- It's like you just go hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year.
- All victories are are small daily wins, stacked hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month that help you back into your values.
Examples
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We did not live that far away, so the former Mrs. Translator and I were able to monitor his progress month by month.
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Month-by-month comparisons were made in order to control for seasonal variations in the number of admissions for acute coronary syndrome.
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And it's just a list of everything she said month by month throughout the campaign.
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This individual carefully kept records month by month.
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So let's look at the big financial events of the year, month by month and the lessons that we learned.
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Well, let's have a look at the month by month breakdown of that GDP value.
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Set your focus on the steps that will get you to your milestones, month by month.
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She is building on her strengths, month by month.
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We do things month by month—just small simple things to make a difference.
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Their working relationship has been improving month by month as they learn to communicate better.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'in a way that occurs each month' is directly and transparently built from 'month' + 'by' + 'month', where 'by' marks the unit or rate (per) and the repetition signals iteration. This compositional pattern (e.g., 'day by day', 'step by step') is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Month by month comes from the simple image of watching a calendar move one month at a time, so you see small changes as each month passes. That's why it means 'in a way that happens or changes every month'.