| Instead of a swift inquiry, and a swift resolution, its pace was snail-like. |
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| All that one normally sees of the shipworm is the snail-like head peeping out of the bark. |
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| Compared to the rapid pace of development in autopilots the progress of windvane steering has been snail-like. |
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| Decoration: Hand-decorated bridges plated with black-gold and featuring large snail-like pattern and dedicated moon phases disc. |
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| The protocol of intra-government communications, and dealings with external agencies often slowed decision making and implementation to a snail-like pace. |
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| His movements were awkward, his pace snail-like. |
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| Rather than building menace, the snail-like pace dissipated it. |
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| It has trailed snail-like behind the Council, only to now place before us as a proposal something that follows the Council's agreement to the letter. |
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| This is one of the best programs that we could ever do in this country and I thank the government for doing that, initially at a very snail-like pace. |
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| We met with the musicians to inform them of the snail-like progress with the Society and felt it was imperative to pull out all the stops and prepare as if we were going to strike. |
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| His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction. |
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| The giant snail-like nautilus is a living fossil that has been in our waters for about 500 million years. |
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| The most striking piece is a dragon's head helmet made for Henry II of France when he was dauphin, with bat ears, protruding eyebrows and an enormous snail-like snout. |
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