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  • Then embark on slow-time activities: visit just one painting in an art exhibition, or stand in a park each morning to spot the opening buds and bring stillness into your day.

    Stop the clock: time shouldn't be tied to timepieces 2012

  • "Home for Christmas and I've been watching the cricket with my Dad and he was, for want of a better word, frustrated, at the Pietersen dismissal and the following slow-time around 280," says Andrew Latimer.

    The Ashes 2010: Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth 2010

  • We love the idea of buying local produce on the market, or bread from the local baker, as they do in France, and we all dream of the slow-time of life on the continent (two-hour lunch breaks, a bank holiday every two days), but then we all rush around impatiently, sit in traffic jams, and shop in Tesco, the Land of Plenty.

    New new new new new « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • With all this talk these days about slow-time and slow food, I feel vindicated.

    Felicia C. Sullivan: Interview: Entrepreneur Jane Wurwand, CEO of Dermalogica 2009

  • The slower scale—slow-time—emerges where change is determined by the entry of new bodies of technology.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • And, of course, a still-working slow-time chamber occupied by alien Aldahax and australopithecine Proharahara ( "Ice Planet" was Ice Age Earth).

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Aldahax and one of the Fire People are trapped in a slow-time chamber, waiting for rescue.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • He also seemed to have forgotten the still, slow-time Off-Moo sentinels.

    The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001

  • "My new quarters in the slow-time area are complete," he said without further preamble.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • Drinking of the island's slow-time waters, the proverbial fountain of youth, arrested aging, but forty generations demanded more extreme measures.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

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