I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car slows down
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The car slowed down and stopped outside our house.
a clock is fast/slow (= shows a later or earlier time than the real time )
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There’s no need to hurry – that clock’s fast.
a faster/slower rate
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The urban population has grown at a faster rate than the rural population.
a slow learner (= someone who learns things slowly )
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The computer program means that slow learners can practise as long as they need to.
a slow movement
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the slow movements of the old man
a slow recovery
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A slow recovery in the hotel market is likely to hold back the company’s profits.
a slow smile
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A slow smile spread across his face.
a slow start
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Work got off to a very slow start because of bad weather.
a slow train ( also a stopping train British English ) (= one that stops at a lot of places )
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We got on the stopping train by mistake and it took hours to get home.
a slow/fast reader
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Her son was quite a slow reader.
at low/slow speed
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Even at low speed, an accident could mean serious injury for a child.
die a sudden/violent/slow etc death
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At the end of the play, the main character dies a violent death.
fast/slow etc grower
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Bamboo is a very vigorous grower.
fast/slow moving etc
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Be careful when changing lanes in fast-moving traffic.
good/bad/slow etc service
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The service was terrible and so was the food.
hard/rough/slow etc going
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I’m getting the work done, but it’s slow going.
have good/quick/slow reflexes
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A tennis player needs to have very quick reflexes.
sb’s watch is slow/runs slow (= it shows an earlier time )
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'He’s late.' 'Maybe his watch is running slow.'
sb’s watch is slow/runs slow (= it shows an earlier time )
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'He’s late.' 'Maybe his watch is running slow.'
slow but/and steady
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She is making a slow but steady recovery.
slow cooking
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Slow cooking gives the dish a better flavour.
slow lane
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The country is expected to remain in the slow lane of economic recovery.
slow motion
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Let’s see that goal again in slow motion.
slow puncture (= one that lets air out very slowly )
slow
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Her pulse was slow but steady.
slow
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The task remains difficult and progress has been slow.
slow
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Collecting the data is a slow process.
slow
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The pace of life in the countryside is slower.
slow
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Economists are forecasting a period of slow growth.
slow/slow-moving
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Traffic’s very slow going out of New York.
the economy slows down
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The US economy is slowing down after a long period of growth.
the fast/slow lane
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Cars in the fast lane were travelling at over 80 miles an hour.
the pace slows/slackens
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After a surge in exports, the pace slackened considerably the following year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
much
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For example, last year it became evident that terminal responses at peak times were becoming much slower .
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Decision-making tends to be much slower and this is often the reason for such slowness.
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McNeill Alexander adopted a different analytical technique, and came up with a much slower dinosaur than Bakker's.
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She had justified her behaviour to herself on the basis that the police would have been much slower and more painstaking.
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There would be higher taxes and, at best, much slower growth in public spending.
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This leaves the unfortunate animal to crawl away and die a much slower death than if hounds had caught him.
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Phone-ins on radio can provide speedy feedback, but by and large feedback is much slower in the mass media than in interpersonal communications.
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The ionophore-induced responses were much slower than those induced by forskolin.
painfully
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Although painfully slow , it meant he could construct small sentences.
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But the council got off to a painfully slow start.
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Still, too many of them, like too many people throughout the division, remained painfully slow in taking action.
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In spite of this painfully slow start, today he is a millionaire.
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Piecemeal Development Attempting to build a school-to-work system company by company and school by school is painfully slow .
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There is every indication that youth apprenticeships will continue to grow in the United States, but at a painfully slow rate.
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The painfully slow elevators, whose speed can be measured in millimeters per hour.
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The school building program -.. is creeping along at a painfully slow clip.
rather
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By later standards they were rather slow cars, but the trucks gave a smooth ride on straight track.
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That may be a rather slow speed compared with that of light.
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I said that this was almost certain but the process was rather slow .
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Flight rather slow and flapping, recalling larger gulls, when hunting over water; also soars and hovers.
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In fact I've had to conclude that I am generally rather slow on the uptake.
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Frau Grossman was rather slow in forwarding it.
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He was rather slow , rather ponderous.
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We are making rather slow progress today.
relatively
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One reason for the Surrealists' relatively slow climb since 1975 is that they were highly valued then.
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Most casino operators in Las Vegas were dogged by a relatively slow year following boom years in 1993 and 1994.
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These characteristics make for relatively slow , concrete, and restricted thought.
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You want a relatively slow but controlled and permanent solution to your weight problem.
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And character recognition is relatively slow and prone to errors even on powerful computers.
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This current path has a small resistance and no opposing voltage, so the decay of current is relatively slow .
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Transport has been relatively slow to see much benefit from the information technology revolution.
so
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Progress was so slow that many found it quicker to abandon their carriages and continue on foot.
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The process is so slow that contemporaries never notice it.
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The pace is slow , so slow that lots of things are unfinished.
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It dripped like a slow percolation through limestone, so slow that she forgot it between drops.
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Why was Britain so slow to develop a national system of education before 1914?
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Since travel was so slow , these commercial transactions took a long time to complete.
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He's so slow , so unimaginative, so lifeless.
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Demand is so slow that the price index fell to 40. 8 % in December from 44. 5 %.
too
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They tried to leap over the sandbags, but were too slow .
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Systems required too much resource and became too slow .
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But it was too slow , or too stupid: I just had time to grab her angles and pull her away.
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Meanwhile, customers were also unhappy Kodak was too slow , too late, and too error ridden.
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The parents continued to find Ramsey's progress too slow .
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A shovel had been too slow and cumbersome.
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The drive to the airport was too slow for Duncan.
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The build-up of phase current to its rated value would be too slow for satisfactory operation of the motor at high speeds.
very
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Constant very slow water flow should take place inside the media preventing true dead areas forming to leach back impurities.
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Saguaro cactus are very slow growing.
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Messenger and Outlook Express both decode automatically within the window, but are very slow .
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The mountains, the waters of the ocean, and the gases of the sky were very slow life.
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It has been in operation for 100 years and is proceeding at a very slow rate.
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Curiously, it was actually very slow to happen in the financial services markets.
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Propagation in the aquarium is very slow and rare.
■ NOUN
growth
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The balancing slower growth was supplied by the portmanteau of miscellaneous services.
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His pacifism, like his social philosophy, was a slow growth .
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During the 1960's there was slow growth with more rapid growth during the early 1970's.
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This plant likes moving water and grows well when placed next to the filtering system, which enhances their normally slow growth .
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Temperatures below this slow down further its normal slow growth .
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The unwillingness of oil-consuming societies to check their spending resulted in the phenomenon of stagflation: slow growth combined with inflation.
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That was slower growth , in percentage terms, than many of its peers enjoyed.
learner
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Eventual guaranteed success is often a very desirable aspect, especially for young or slow learners .
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By portraying herself as a slow learner , Wong affords her reader a superior and even a smug position.
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Actually he majored in Phys Ed, but to tell you the truth, Rickie was always a slow learner .
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What a slow learner I am!
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He introduced a quite different strand: I was a slow learner .
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Indeed, they were probably worried about why the baby was a slow learner .
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In Balbinder's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner .
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Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Labour party is a party of slow learners ?
movement
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At its heart is a slow movement of great intensity and spellbinding simplicity, magically performed.
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But even the slow movements are lovely.
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Here in the slow movement she allowed the gentle principal theme to flow naturally and above all musically.
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To Western ears, the wind playing in the slow movement will probably sound execrable.
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The slow movement of this performance is particularly fine, with pianissimos that have you catching your breath.
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It will be seen from tables 1 and 2 that such very slow movements were more frequent than one might expect.
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His preference for very measured speeds in slow movements leads him to at least one serious miscalculation.
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By contrast he is equally adept at setting a tone of meditative rapture in the slower movements .
pace
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He fell from power in 1987, resigning from the Politburo over the slow pace of reform.
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The increase was at a slower pace than in the second quarter, however, suggesting gains in efficiency may be peaking.
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Travel went at a very slow pace .
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What you do not do is rush it by warming it up; just let it grow at its own slow pace .
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Thus, for the question about the slow pace of educational change you could set a paragraph to answer the following questions.
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Bloomfield Hills, Canton and Carleton have grown at the slowest pace .
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Then Wallace hit a good cross which Speed side footed the volley at very slow pace into the net.
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Indeed, the slow pace of communications has earned the Web a new nickname: the World Wide Wait.
process
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The slowest processes come at the top of the hierarchy, and provide the environment for faster processes.
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During this slow process , what was happening in the South?
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For a start, the introduction of the changes enshrined in the new Charities Act will be a slow process .
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To the extent that proletarianization is occurring, it may be a long, slow process .
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The Government is restoring several of them as holiday flats, a slow process but tastefully done.
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Even 20 or 30 years ago, finding the fish was a slow process .
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The intention behind the book is furthering the necessarily slow process of changing values.
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When it does, it is not an event but a painful and slow process .
progress
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Even with computers it is extremely difficult, as the slow progress shows.
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In the morning a bicycle made its slow progress across the fields.
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And she knew absolutely everything, which must have made her particularly disappointed in Frankie's slow progress at school.
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The boat was making very slow progress in heavy seas.
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We are making rather slow progress today.
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Surprisingly, in a society fascinated by technology, the aeroplane made slow progress .
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The fact that food and water were running out due to slow progress , demoralized me still further.
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For Jez, each day is hard work, with slow progress , and sometimes with disappointment.
rate
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In the laboratory, males had a significantly slower rate of growth, but still matured earlier than females.
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Because the elderly often experience a decline in liver function, these drugs are metabolized at a slower rate .
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These will maintain growth but at slower rates than with live food.
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Or alternatively, if time is passing at a slower rate on the moving train.
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It has been in operation for 100 years and is proceeding at a very slow rate .
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The cursor, by the way, appears boldfaced but blinking at a slower rate than the cursor in the text itself.
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Any slower rate , as for example in the first half of the eighteenth century, allowed real wages to rise.
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Consumers, overloaded with debt, have cut back new borrowing to the slowest rate in two years.
reader
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The main conclusion to be drawn here is that the way to aid slow readers is to improve their word-recognition skills.
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He was one of the slow readers who met with me for extra work from time to time.
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He was a slow reader , and his lips moved as he followed the words.
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Her good readers are voracious and read their weight in books every week, while the slow readers lag behind.
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The eyes of the slow reader will stop on each word before moving on to the next one.
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Have you ever watched people reading to themselves, slow readers who move their lips silently as they read?
smile
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A slow smile , almost sad.
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Cutty smiled his slow smile that expressed no joy.
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He moved with a delicacy that emphasised his power, and he had a slow smile and a gentle handshake.
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A slow smile spread across his face as he realized that it must be Ace with the Marines.
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Roman's slow smile was infinitely sardonic.
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A slow smile spreads over her lips.
speed
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With the slower speeds the qualifying heats as well as the race itself were almost injury-free this year.
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People have become frustrated with the inability to get online and the slow speeds of the Internet.
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The slowest speeds , however, are already quite fast and there is little practical room for manipulation beyond them.
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Speedsensitive steering too sensitive at slow speeds .
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Earlier types have run at high power, even when manoeuvring at slow speed , to keep the skirt inflated.
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That may be a rather slow speed compared with that of light.
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That is impossible - due to the numbers of the missiles, their range and slow speed .
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On slowest speed , mix in the flour and baking soda.
start
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After a slow start John Campbell managed to raise a further £90 for the Fund.
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But the council got off to a painfully slow start .
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But Mercury is making a slow start .
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He has had a very slow start this season, though.
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Garah, who split a pastern last year, overcame a slow start to win the Stetchworth Maiden Stakes.
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And the work got off to a very slow start .
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The picture is one of a slow start followed by years of sustained rapid growth.
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In spite of this painfully slow start , today he is a millionaire.
train
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I missed the slower trains with the lounge cars and the rackety wheels.
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I changed in Edinburgh to a slower train .
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The drive from Reims was a long one, but it was still better than taking the slow train down from Paris.
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Not me, after encountering one of these suits on a go-slow train .
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In truth, this one has been something more akin to a slow train coming.
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Or persuade the operators of a slow train to Ulan Bator to put his Beatles cassette on the public-address system?
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What they did not realize was that the express train had a restaurant car and the slow train did not.
walk
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Blake's slow walk appeared to unnerve them.
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I learned the grammar, the ritual behavior, the slow walk of openings.
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My diary this Saturday showed a very slow walk past trees and stones and gateways which the lines on her face remembered.
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We moved about a hundred feet at a slow walk .
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She liked nothing better than a nice slow walk round a cemetery as a rule.
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After a slow walk past the dustbins he found nothing of interest except a bag of rusty washers and an old tap.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fast/slow etc walker
be quick/slow/first etc off the mark
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Salad crops, however, are quick off the mark .
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This time, they were slow off the mark .
be slow/quick on the uptake
in the slow lane
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As always since the Government came into power, we are in the slow lane.
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Old fogey that I am, after that I stayed in the slow lane, poking along at 80 or 90.
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Would you expect him to poke along in the slow lane?
long/slow haul
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Can we clean out the garage at last and buy for the long haul ?
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In the long haul , Rex wanted what we all want, a measure of financial security.
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It is necessary to get things into perspective before the long haul to the Southern Hemisphere, though.
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Miles per gallon Then, on a long haul , it wouldn't go up hill or overtake on the flat.
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Over the long haul , how you see others may be even more important in helping your dreams come true.
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That would be a long haul .
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The county could subsidize the longer hauls from North County through a discount on tip fees.
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Those who do not fancy long haul can share short flights between two or three budding pilots.
slow handclap
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Where are y'all from?" he asked in a slow Southern drawl.
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slow economic growth
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a slow learner
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Climate change is a very slow process.
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Danny is a little bit slow .
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Farmers in the region have been slow to adopt modern agricultural methods.
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February is the slowest month in the tourist trade.
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For the first few months that I was taking lessons, my progress was extremely slow .
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I was always one of the slowest runners in my class.
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It's been a pretty slow day.
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My computer's really slow compared to the ones at school.
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Rebuilding the country's economy is likely to be a long, slow process.
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She's making a slow recovery after her illness.
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The CIA has been slow in turning over the documents that Congress requested.
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The train was slow , noisy, and uncomfortable.
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They are notoriously slow workers.
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Things have been slow , real slow, for months now.
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We danced to all the slow songs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He's so slow , so unimaginative, so lifeless.
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In the home this usually means the telephone line, which is fine for voice but excruciatingly slow for data.
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It was slow , unbearable torture that would drive any man insane.
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Life as ever-renewing mineral, and minerals as slow life.
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Some patients experience a slow decline in their health as the effectiveness of the drugs gradually decreases.
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The closer you sail, the slower you go and viceversa.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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It skidded slightly and slowed down .
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Instead of slowing down and driving through the snow and ice like sensible individuals, they drive like idiots.
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Read in studio Police are parading a range of race and rally cars in an attempt to make speeding motorists slow down .
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When food goes back into the refrigerator, growth begins to slow down , but only as the food chills.
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Sails were hauled in and the ship started to slow down .
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What did I do, press a button or something? Slow down .
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But they still haven't kept pace with the population even though it is slowing down now.
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Affect can speed up or slow down the rate of development.
■ NOUN
car
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A police car slowed down, the two young officers looked carefully.
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Leaving the restaurant, Brooks started up State Street where his car was slowed by pedestrians leaving the harbor.
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The car slowed down and a chill swept over as she caught a glimpse of the driver.
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He barked viciously; lunging with all his might as the car slowed down and seemed about to stop.
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I glance in the rear-view mirror to see other cars close behind; slowing down but then speeding up again.
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Auto dealers also may feel some pain as car sales will slow after two strong years.
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I was almost at the corner of Stuart Street when a car slowed up into the corner of my eye.
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Suddenly, the cars ahead of me slowed and formed a long line.
crawl
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It seemed to take for ever, slowing to a crawl as it drew parallel with him.
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Industrial expansion had slowed to a crawl .
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Adam slowed to a crawl , as if stopping for him.
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And discussions over the construction of theme parks and movie theaters slowed to a crawl .
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Sometimes when the movie slows to a crawl , they chain-smoke while wearing hats.
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Here, though, time slows to a crawl .
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The ball just seemed to slow down and crawl through the air....
demand
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Current financial problems in some importing countries may slow down growth in demand .
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A slowing in demand and inventories start to build quickly.
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Concern about slowing demand for petrol and a recent fall in crude prices has pushed Opec towards tough action on supply.
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Richmond: Business activity slowed , and demand declined for temporary workers.
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To slow down the demand , McLaren began charging £30 a copy.
economy
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That is a reflection of the fact that the world economy is slowing down.
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Analysts said lower mortgage rates have helped to spur demand for housing even as other parts of the economy have slowed .
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The economy may be slowing down.
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That suggests the economy may slow even more in the first half of this year.
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The national economy has slowed to about half the 4. 1 percent growth rate of 1994.
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Signs that the economy is slowing after years of expansion has weighed on stocks in recent weeks.
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Interest rates of all types have been falling as the economy slows and inflation fears recede.
flow
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Sitting still reduces this action, slowing blood flow and increasing the chances of clotting.
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This simply slows the flow of traffic and causes unnecessary and frustrating delays.
growth
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Deflation hit productivity growth which slowed down somewhat.
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But the rate of growth was already slowing from 2.4 % per year down to 1.8 % in the 1990s.
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When food goes back into the refrigerator, growth begins to slow down, but only as the food chills.
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Economic growth is slowing , but should still be a respectable 5 percent this year.
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Raising funds has become increasingly expensive for banks, as deposit growth slows .
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Economic growth is already slowing fast.
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When they are made, growth will slow down.
inflation
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Interest rates of all types have been falling as the economy slows and inflation fears recede.
market
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As the economy slows , the markets are likely to trim their estimates of sustainable growth in both productivity and profits.
pace
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On the other hand, the pace of counterurbanization has slowed considerably in the past decade.
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The time frame is geologic, the pace excruciatingly slow .
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Once Abraham can see the place where he will kill his son, the pace of the narrative slows right down.
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Since November, the pace of borrowing likely slowed as department and chain stores reported dismal holiday sales.
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Their pace did not slow as they entered the sea and they advanced in a solid human wall.
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Postures change, pace slows , bustle becomes murmur.
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And now the pace slowed , leaf by leaf rose, quivered erect, and slowly descended.
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Her pace slowed even more as she thought of the house dark and sour with grief.
process
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As the temperature falls the process slows , and below 10oC the development from egg to L3 usually can not take place.
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With aging, many body processes slow down, affecting the way medications are absorbed and eliminated.
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Some genes promote the process , others slow it down.
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But instead of simply fighting the proposal, the neighborhood association asked for the process to be slowed down.
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Most redistribution took place in the early 1980s and the process then slowed .
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In the Middle East a promising peace process is slowed .
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The same process slows the moon's rotation as well.
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The bilateral process has slowed down and there is little prospect of accelerating it or involving the smaller nuclear powers.
progress
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The longer stride actually slowed his progress by 30 percent, exactly as the model had predicted.
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Ignoring it has slowed medical progress considerably in two ways.
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A closed door stops draughts spreading the flames, and dramatically slows the progress of a fire.
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The crowd slowed her progress , but she soon caught sight of him again, heading towards the door.
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New equipment was therefore brought sparingly or deferred altogether, thereby slowing relative progress still further.
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Old folk ambled, fanning themselves with hats or newspapers, slowing down their progress .
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It just slows down our progress .
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The continued presence of those units on the balance sheet is slowing progress to break even, the company has said.
rate
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When the rate of economic growth slowed , that of public expenditure did not.
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Quarterly growth rates consistently slowed from mid-1990 until late 1992 when they finally went negative.
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After a while your pulse rate slows and you come to think maybe these ordinary law-abiding folks ain't zombies after all.
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After a minute of this, your heart rate has slowed by 20 percent.
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S., subscriber growth rates are starting to slow .
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Growth rates slowed somewhat in the mid-1950s, yet were still in excess of seven percent.
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The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 percent a year.
sale
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Tie Rack looks rather out of fashion as sales slow down Outlook.
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What about the fact that personal-computer sales have slowed a bit lately?
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Meanwhile, auto sales are slowing and construction activity is weak.
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Auto dealers also may feel some pain as car sales will slow after two strong years.
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With the growth of software sales expected to slow , Microsoft will be forced to look afield for more revenue.
sign
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The Glory showed no sign of slowing up.
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Gretzky had 23 goals and 79 assists this past season but has shown signs of slowing down.
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The boom shows no sign of slowing .
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That trend shows no sign of slowing down.
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A record year in 1989 for new investment in the County shows no sign of slowing down.
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But the train showed no signs of slowing down, and there was no rain yet.
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Nor does Skoda show any sign of slowing down.
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And though she turned 76 last June, she shows no signs of slowing down.
speed
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But this means that data transfer between processor registers is slowed down to the speed of store access.
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Age has slowed her speed , but she uses the Dvorak keyboard and still wins accuracy awards.
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The passenger was far removed from an anonymous piece of card, and the parachutes correspondingly larger to slow the descent speed .
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A vessel equipped with Flettner rotors gains in manoeuvrability as lift is diminished by slowing a cylinder's speed of rotation.
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Morton slowed the speed a little, preparing to bring the boat to a halt when he needed to.
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A carbon-fibre brake disc shattered as he slowed from high speed , and his McLaren crashed into a guard rail.
traffic
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After the race, the track was redesigned to slow down traffic at the corners.
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She slowed down at the traffic lights by Sloane Street.
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The protesters have also staged go-slows and traffic disruptions on motorways, and caused severe disruption in Edinburgh and Liverpool.
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Read in studio A group of villagers say measures to slow down traffic on their main street have actually made things worse.
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The whole point of a speed camera is to slow the traffic down to the correct speed limit.
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This simply slows the flow of traffic and causes unnecessary and frustrating delays.
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Isn't it the aim of these measures to slow traffic down?
train
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The train was slowing slightly; they must be close to the station.
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Janir and the woman talked until the train slowed down and I stood up.
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Suddenly, Harry realized that the train was slowing .
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As the train slows , the man stands and walks to the closed doors at the middle of the car.
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The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them.
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As the train began slowing down for North Chittendon, I flattened myself against the window.
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I held the book in my hands as the train slowed at the signal box.
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What was more the train appeared to be slowing down quite markedly.
walk
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Sharpe slowed to a walk and drew his sword.
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I slowed to a walk , pouring sweat.
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Jean found herself running, but soon had to slow to a walk again.
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When he saw or heard other people, he slowed to a walk until they were past, then he ran again.
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I put my head down, slowed my walk to try to put my escort in front of me.
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He ran surprisingly fast on his stumpy legs but eventually he gave up and slowed to a despairing walk .
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They escaped into the relative quiet of Nails's cul-de-sac and slowed to a walk .
■ VERB
begin
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After a while the pumping of his heart began to slow down.
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When the business began to slow down, he decided that he would offer liquor to improve his profit margins.
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Then Tony pulled the lever and the wheel began to slow down.
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When food goes back into the refrigerator, growth begins to slow down, but only as the food chills.
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I began to slow down, keeping to the crown, looking out on my right.
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As the train began slowing down for North Chittendon, I flattened myself against the window.
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At last, however, the plates began to slow down and finally stopped coming.
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Time begins to slow down. 19.31 Steven falls through front door of house.
expect
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The move came just days before the Alameda-based networking company told investors it expected slowing sales for the next few quarters.
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However, that pace is expected to slow .
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Growth is expected to slow early this year, but investors are still waiting for the first economic evidence.
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With the growth of software sales expected to slow , Microsoft will be forced to look afield for more revenue.
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Underlying inflation was expected to slow to 2. 8 percent.
seem
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The pace of technological innovation in manufacturing does not seem to be slowing down.
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The sound of my voice did seem to slow Lincoln for an instant.
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However, the rate does seem to be slowing .
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Time seems to slow way down, in an uncanny way, as if everyone were moving in slow motion.
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Even the opposition seemed to slow in sympathy, but he still kept the ball and did quite well each time.
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The ball just seemed to slow down and crawl through the air....
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Their movements seemed gradually to slow down, as though, like Alice, they had stepped through the looking-glass.
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Time seemed to slow down as Christine fell into the executive transporter bay.
show
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The report shows launch activity slowed dramatically for the month of November.
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Some studies showed the seismic waves that passed through it speeding up; others showed them slowing down.
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The Glory showed no sign of slowing up.
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Gretzky had 23 goals and 79 assists this past season but has shown signs of slowing down.
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Figures released in January 1990 showed that growth had slowed sharply at the end of 1989.
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That trend shows no sign of slowing down.
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The boom shows no sign of slowing .
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But the train showed no signs of slowing down, and there was no rain yet.
start
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Strange, this detail at the two ends of day; the starting up and slowing down of things.
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It started slow and pumped itself full, swelling the men bigger and bigger.
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When California's economy started to slow down, the loans began to unravel.
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But as I started to slow down for the approach, I was too careful.
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When fermentation starts to slow down, a hard spile is used to control the escape of the gas.
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S., subscriber growth rates are starting to slow .
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Then it started to slow down, and I was sick.
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Our collective solution was to start slow .
try
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Fernando tried to slow the pace and Ruth clung to him breathlessly.
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All that human beings can do is to try to slow it down.
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He tried to slow her down with gestures which she interpreted as signs of denial, and so she poured it on.
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But Stella, please try to slow down.
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Kline and Langer try to slow them down.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All this paperwork has really slowed up our application process.
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Traffic slowed to a crawl as we approached the accident site.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A closed door stops draughts spreading the flames, and dramatically slows the progress of a fire.
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Even as I battled my fears with frenetic bursts of activity, whenever I slowed down I knew I was unprepared.
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I know life in Hollywood is fast-paced, but could you guys slow down a little?
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Instead of slowing down, the pentecostals are growing faster than ever.
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My watch must have been gradually slowing to a stop all day.
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She apologized for slowing him down and twice advised him to leave her.
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The report shows launch activity slowed dramatically for the month of November.
III. adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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You'd better go pretty slow around this corner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A water supply was very slow coming to Baldersdale and never did arrive at Low Birk Hatt.
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Apple has been slow to license its operating system.
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If Mr Ridgley's varnish is slow drying, he can add a little paint driers.
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Men have been slow to face this prospect; some still hope that it may never become reality.
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Until then, her career had been slow to take off.
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While the federal policy shift began a decade ago, forest managers have been slow to put it into practice.