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Examples
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Twice voters will go to the polls in make or break moments with the potential to cement slow-running reforms or tip Africa's biggest nation into the abyss.
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Shortly after depleting our stash of Cherry Bombs and Mighty-Mights in surrounding mail boxes, homes and slow-running civil servants -- he came upon what appeared to be the mother of all dog turds, left by what seemed to be some sort of supernatural Great Dane.
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He said that because the flash drive would go into the same Symmetrix system as slower drives, it should be possible to transfer slow-running applications to the flash drives without having to buy a separate system.
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Synopsis: Slowpoke Larry's two housemates lament about his constant tardiness and slow-running watch.
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Take a dip in a slow-running, shallow canal, however, and you're splashing and follicking with leviathan quantities of your good pal Escherichia coli.
Resist the Urge 2005
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Take a dip in a slow-running, shallow canal, however, and you're splashing and follicking with leviathan quantities of your good pal Escherichia coli.
Veniceblog: 2005
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Flatt, a slow-running pocket passer, was sacked four times and was intercepted twice.
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About 5,200 lower-ranking ex-soldiers and communist militants are facing similar charges in a series of other slow-running and oft-delayed trials in which verdicts are sporadically announced.
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The hot wind brought an odour of sulphur, as if it had rolled up from cities accursed and buried deeper than the river-bed of the slow-running Jordan.
Herodias 2003
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For lower costs and greater reliability and maintainability, designers now seek technology with fewer components - such as directly driven, slow-running generators, with passive yaw and passive blade pitch control.
Chapter 9 2000
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