Example sentences of "slowly [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathy said : ‘ We only opened the Centre in January and we are trying to bring clients in slowly so they have time to adjust . |
| 2 | Indication can be quivertip or butt indicator and generally I wait for the reel to revolve slowly so I know it is not a line bite . |
| 3 | Try drinking more slowly so you can skip some rounds . |
| 4 | Naughty girl , always makes fun she was absolutely a very intelligent woman but she spoke soft and slowly so everybody just sort of , who knew her superficially , she was not a very intelligent woman , she really was I can assure you . |
| 5 | and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise . |
| 6 | The scale of poverty in Sussex meant that the new poor law had to be introduced slowly although the transition was no less painful . |
| 7 | When they did bestir themselves on rare occasions , as in 1917 , but more slowly than any other group , they could read plainly Christian meanings into Bolshevik slogans such as ‘ universal peace ’ and ‘ if any would not work , neither should he eat ’ . |
| 8 | The figures in Table 4 show how many of these responsibilities were eventually reduced , prior to the Korean War , but much more slowly than Keynes and others called for . |
| 9 | Cast-iron members generally heat up more slowly than equivalent steel sections . |
| 10 | Sales of OS/2 have gone more slowly than some at Microsoft had hoped . |
| 11 | Despite what seemed to be a nice little boom , British productivity had grown more slowly than that of any comparable European country : 40 per cent compared with Germany 's and Italy 's 150 per cent , not to consider Japan 's 400 per cent . |
| 12 | In Britain the birth rate ‘ Bulge ’ , which hit its peak in the late Forties , went down more slowly than anyone had expected . |
| 13 | Blattern the postman walked slowly across the green , more slowly than ever , whilst Alida waited , twitching at the curtains , and then he paused at their gate before walking past . |
| 14 | Morale among the Party faithful declined more slowly than among the rest of the population . |
| 15 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 16 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 17 | And being someone for whom an hour on Møn passed more slowly than two weeks elsewhere , she welcomed a distraction ; she would plan that part of the garden herself . |
| 18 | Since the stars near the edge of the galaxy orbit more slowly than those close in , observations of their galactic orbits tie in closely with measurement of their distances from Earth . |
| 19 | Although it occurred more slowly than for subjects given non-reinforced pre-exposure , loss of the OR occurred in control subjects too , a result consistent with the view that α will decline when the CS predicts a consistent consequence and that the OR reflects the value of α . |
| 20 | She hurried back down the corridor and opened the sitting room door , more slowly than she had Jessie 's , thinking that her mother might still be there and not , for once , have retired early . |
| 21 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 22 | In Cantal the livestock density per hectare of permanent grassland appears to be increasing only very slowly now and certainly more slowly than between 1955 and 1970 . |
| 23 | The beef is tender and full of flavour and , although the breed grows more slowly than the big continental animals , the deficit is adequately compensated for by much cheaper production costs in terms of food and housing ( it stays out all year round ) . |
| 24 | British garages also work more slowly than their French counterparts . |
| 25 | It followed the discovery that many old people metabolise the drug much more slowly than normal . |
| 26 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 27 | The climate is crucial , because a reactor compartment exposed to dry air will rust more slowly than one buried in soil or sunk at sea . |
| 28 | He believes that the jets come from areas where material is evaporating from the surface more slowly than in surrounding regions . |
| 29 | In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) . |
| 30 | Carbohydrate foods rich in fibre are absorbed more slowly than those from which the fibre has been stripped . |