every inch of the way

:  being each individual or part of a group without exception

:  being each in a series or succession

:  being all taken severally

:  a small amount, distance, or degree

:  stature, height

:  a fall (as of rain or snow) sufficient to cover a surface or to fill a gauge to the depth of one inch

:  to move by small degrees :  progress slowly

:  to cause to move slowly

:  island

:  a thoroughfare for travel or transportation from place to place

:  an opening for passage

:  the course traveled from one place to another :  route

:  of, connected with, or constituting an intermediate point on a route

:  by a long distance :  to a considerable degree or extent :  far

:  by far :  much

:  very