How To Use Slower In A Sentence
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They've been much slower to change undesirable features of union contracts, such as policies that overemphasize seniority and protect poorly performing workers.
The Wisconsin union fight isn't about benefits. It's about labor's influence.
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Then finish the walk at a slower pace.
Living with Angina
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Be slow in choosing a friend; slower in changing.
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The delicate cycle, which uses a slower and gentler spin intensity, is for laundering lingerie, stockings and other garments that are normally handwashed.
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If the indigestion is the result of a slower process, the stomach does not participate in the process.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
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Engines usually idle slower and are sluggish to respond until they warm up.
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It decreed last year that downhill courses were to be made slower and skiers required to wear less aerodynamic outfits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Batsmen need to use their feet cleverly when playing on the slightly slower pitches here so that they are in a position to play the ball without mistiming it.
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Horses trotted through the dirt streets, pulling buckboards and tally-hos past slower-moving electrified trolley cars.
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Compared to its refined counterpart, wholewheat pasta gives a slower, more sustained release of energy into the bloodstream, is higher in fibre and more nutritious too.
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Those who don't make it in Treviso usually sign with clubs in lower divisions, and, if they are enrolled in a university, continue studying at a slower pace because of the demands of pro basketball.
USATODAY.com - Team-first, back-to-basics foreigners changing NBA
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In fact, my computer is almost slower without my working enchantments on it.
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DURANGO, Colo. (Reuters) - Chocolate may be a comfort in troubled times but even this affordable luxury is feeling the pinch of slower economic growth in the United States.
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Michael was struggling to deflect a rain of blows, and the swing of his arm was getting slower and slower.
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These digital devices deflate at about 4 mm Hg per second, making them sometimes seem slower to use than auscultatory aneroid devices, but they are more accurate.
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(_ritenuto_ and _ritenente_) to indicate a definitely slower rate.
Music Notation and Terminology
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King opts for slower tempos than expected, illuminating every stately arpeggio in the opening instrumental prelude until the explosive entry of the voices.
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Mars is in this instance considered a 'malefic' trigger for the larger configuration of slower planets.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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First of all, the pace of the game is not only slower, but it's suited more to strategic bursts of speed and demonstrations of power.
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But the process of dispersal was so slow that the rate of faunal replacement between different groups was much slower than the process of evolution within them.
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I have recommitted myself to discovering a slower lifestyle -- I do, of course, fully believe in the power of poetry and play -- but the siren song of a highly productive life still calls compellingly to me.
Christine Carter, PhD: Borrowing Time for Bliss
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You should only pass a slower vehicle if it is safe to do so.
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This means that the spaceship orbits slower than it would if the Moon wasn't there.
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His experiments with rockets led him to conclude that when approaching supersonic speeds aerodynamic forces vary as the velocity cubed rather then squared, which was the operative rule at slower speeds.
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The slower speeds were a result of the races being flown with a cracked crankcase.
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In many direct instruction classrooms, the teacher arranges schedules so that slower learners are permitted the time they need.
Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
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They walk very slow. In the comparative both slower and more slowly are used:Can you speak slower/more slowly?
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He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower pupils.
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He felt himself running in slow motion, slower and slower, like a clockwork toy running down.
CHARMED LIFE
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Be slow in choosing a friend; slower in changing.
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Slower sugar-releasing breads such as 100 per cent wholemeal or whole rye bread would be a better bet.
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If your mouse pointer is moving too fast, drag the slider to the slower side.
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As I discussed at the forum, upper chambers of legislatures around the world are more conservative and slower moving, in part because seniority is so paramount in these bodies.
Transportation Choices’ Review of the Session: From Bad to Worse « PubliCola
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You could see the heat rising in waves off the highway and everything seemed to move in slower motion.
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The colors are often high-key but eschew quick optical effects for slower vibrant resonances.
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Slower, stringier - seemingly completely foreign.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most resistant snakes are also a little slower than the less resistant reptiles, which puts them at an evolutionary disadvantage.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might be associations, such as memories of holidays, pastoral idylls, the peacefulness, the slower pace, or a whole imagined way of life.
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Spirit can communicate directly with Earth via either the pointable high-gain antenna or, at a slower data rate, through a low-gain antenna that does not move.
News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Some of the deeper slower water by the golf course and downstream is best fished with swim feeder rig using hemp as an attractor with gentles or casters as hook bait.
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This does not condemn interactive multimedia to death, but it does suggest a slower-than-expected scenario for widespread adoption.
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However, when light therapy was discontinued, patients quickly relapsed, whereas patients on tryptophan had a slower relapse rate.
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Graphically, this is superb but the pace is far slower using voice control than when you use a joypad.
The Sun
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While I loved Segu Blue for its slower moments (of which I Speak Fula exhibits plenty), the real charm of his latest is in the upbeat tracks.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: From Maori to Mali
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Slower choo-choos are less apt to succumb to heat kinks; after a 1998 accident in Texas, Union Pacific Railroad mandated that trains not exceed 10 mph through areas with known or suspected kinks.
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The first hour or so is usually slower cha-cha music to give dancers a chance to warm up and allow beginners to practice at a comfortable speed.
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I find, however, that it is much slower in increasing itself; the best way to propagate it is by cuttings dibbled into sand in early summer.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Some books and fletchers recommend just splitting them, I found sawing to be easier and more accurate although probably slower.
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This year, it's a catchall reminder that the Internet, telecom, and networking revolutions will be slower to emerge than their cheerleaders first thought.
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I don't really think they are very deadly, and I know our extemporized fuses are slower than our voyage is at the present time; but nevertheless the bombs have served the purpose, as you shall see.
CHAPTER XLVII
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Darius and Kara just smiled and shook their heads and followed at slower pace.
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The time is 10 seconds slower than her world record set at the Olympics two years ago.
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Current economic activity is markedly slower than during the go-go years of the mid to late 1980s.
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He's got a very good bumper, and his slower ball comes out really well.
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Progress against the diseases of affluence is sadly slower.
Times, Sunday Times
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The young chub seek out the corners of the tank, where small eddies mean the water is moving slower than in the main current.
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The long trudge goalwards, the much quicker or much slower return.
Times, Sunday Times
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The academic community was slower in rising to the challenge.
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They walked slower and slower, placing each foot carefully on this slick surface.
A Time of War
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Anyone using ferries to commute or travel on business is going to want to cut down the time involved and will choose the new fast ferries in preference to the older slower vessels.
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They walked slower and slower, placing each foot carefully on this slick surface.
A Time of War
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It's often best to save the full-page print ads, expensive radio spots and glossy, four-color mailers for the slower months of the year.
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Watching a faster car overtake a slower one on a straight.
The Sun
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Once depressions are full, there will be more surface runoff because of the slower infiltration rate.
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They also reported that the simple cells of young rats showed lower light flicker thresholds as well as a preference for slower movement speeds compared to complex and hypercomplex cells.
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Slower vehicles, less negotiable routes and higher monetary costs lead to fewer journeys and shorter distances - and thus less traffic.
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Dena enjoyed her weeks of freedom, as her body grew heavier and slower.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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But it was discovered during trials that individuals were able to improve relaxation levels over a period of several weeks by progressing from the faster to slower CDs.
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HP shares had rallied on the early news of layoffs, but they're slightly slower today.
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Notably, the binding was biphasic with each species, i.e., there was a rapid phase followed by a much slower one.
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The only thing I noticed was the engine braking which dragged the car slower when I took my foot off the accelerator.
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The larger masses of molten glass remained near the effusive center; these were slower to solidify and commonly became strange agglomerations where bombarded by the rain of smaller ejecta.
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It really is more of a general telephoto, which is fine, but I already have a 70-300mm VR which (aside from the slower aperture) is an excellent general telephoto for me.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
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Every time I think that the studios are slow in getting what's going on out here, the traditional media rears up to let me know that they're even slower.
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Because the interconversion of the two tautomers is slower than the actual proton transfer reaction, a conformational change is probably associated with the isomerization.
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In France, the dance became slower and more stately, as did the sarabande on its removal to France from Spain.
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This does not condemn interactive multimedia to death, but it does suggest a slower-than-expected scenario for widespread adoption.
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As the laps unwound, the pack split into two groups and the leaders were lapping slower competitors by the ninth lap.
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I want to breathe in every nurdle and give thanks for every slower bouncer.
Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
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Sammy is definitely interested, but she is naturally slower at everything (having never done it before and being a over a year younger which is eons to a toddler) and even when I have them take turns the outcome is that Sammy does very little and then it is Alex's turn again.
Archive 2009-01-01
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He has moved to Spain, seemingly to enjoy a slower style of life.
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Blaming the slower wage numbers on Brexit is putting the cart before the horse.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a few years embroiled in ambivalence, empathy, concern and more, the changes medication, consoling and more, can have on this person “at times” seemingly leaves them like an empty vessel where life, as we know it, has just been sucked out of them, and yes, they are indeed slower.
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There is, of course, money to be raised on the Internet but it involves the much slower and methodical work of building sizable e-mail lists and then cultivating these people over time.
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While they may slow or impede the process of change, in the long run they are slower than a rational approach.
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As technology increases at an exponential pace, I think the average citizen is embracing it at a much slower rate.
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A fast pixel response helps eliminate ‘ghosting’ and distortion often seen on LCD monitors with slower response times.
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Eventually, slower rhythmic unisons prevail and then a hocketed pattern of single notes emerges.
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But Hayasaki said Nissan's unique system enables it to better control the motor by using a lithium-ion battery instead of nickel-metal hydride, which is slower in capturing and discharging energy.
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I went to work today and it was a slower than usual day because the patient turnout was low.
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Other cells from the same population spread in a slower, anisotropic mode, exhibiting filopodial protrusions, greater membrane ruffling, edge retraction, and centripetal flow of actin filaments.
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This does not condemn interactive multimedia to death, but it does suggest a slower-than-expected scenario for widespread adoption.
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It goes, however, slower and slower, and curving its journey less and less, until at last its motion in remote obscurity is again so sluggish, that the sun's attraction is once more predominant, and able to recall the truant towards its realms of light.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852
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The militia lieutenant took the page and read it quickly, then returned to the top to give it a slower redigestion.
The Bear and the Dragon
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I havent really noticed it getting aby slower, just alot of things dont want to work.
I'm getting sick of this
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If the batsman likes quick bowling, bowl it slower.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid.
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The electronic power steer provided crisp, firm handling on the highway, while allowing a lighter touch at slower speeds.
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These trapping kinetics are much slower than observed in photosystem I, the other photosystem of oxygenic photosynthesis.
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Some firms attributed slower momentum to concerns about the looming general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pathan, perhaps not fully fit, wheeled away without joy, never managing the curl in to the right-handers that made him so deadly just a few months ago, and he finished the series with two sad attempts at slower balls that ended up as beamers.
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Continental drift also has an effect on the weather, though the process is much slower.
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The discovery that anxiety is linked to slower disengagement from threatening stimuli raises as many questions as answers, observe the study's authors.
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American moviemakers and studio executives have always been slower to respond to social unrest, perhaps out of fear that controversy will scare away audiences.
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Perhaps my eyes are trained by watching the slightly slower Chris Kaman lumber out and hedge, or Marcus Camby lay back and do nothing at all, but watching Gooden fly out in front of the screener and harass the ballhandler was a beautiful thing.
ClipperBlog.com Blog for the Los Angeles NBA Clippers Fans
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Made with rye and wholegrain wheat, these are high in fibre with the sourdough making them slower to digest, so keeping you full for longer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The relatively low-quality plant litter mineralizes nitrogen at a slower rate than would occur in the absence of herbivory.
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Current economic activity is markedly slower than during the go-go years of the mid to late 1980s.
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Gigerenzer seems to think that considered debate between these savants would permit a slower but better guided development of scientific psychology.
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But the slower wits, such as Mr. Solomon and Mr.. Waule, who both occupied land of their own, took a long time to arrive at this conclusion, their minds halting at the vivid conception of what it would be to cut the Big Pasture in two, and turn it into three-cornered bits, which would be "nohow;" while accommodation-bridges and high payments were remote and incredible.
Middlemarch
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As for adjusting for cable stretch, as the cable stretches, the derailleur will move to larger cogs faster and slower to smaller cogs.
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In aquatic systems these processes are two orders of magnitude slower than assimilation and dissimilation.
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Impulsively, the Squat swung the trike to pull alongside, so that one wheel dragged on the slower strip.
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And that's given the slower motors on the circuit the chance to catch up.
The Sun
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The shagbark is a slower growing tree than the pecan, but when properly cultivated shows a very satisfactory growth.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911
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We are about to enter a period of much slower growth in public spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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The place was only a third full when we arrived, but as it filled, the slower and slower everything became.
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Gas is slower-burning,[Sentencedict] resulting in reduced wear on principal engine components and reduced running costs.
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In terms of technological progress,the public is slower than focus group. Toba Beta
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In France, the dance became slower and more stately, as did the sarabande on its removal to France from Spain.
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Please tell the driver to go slower.
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The Wise One, Glasgow on 7: 57pm today Only a fully trained industrial engineer could rate performance and determine whether an individual was working at a slower rate than standard Ya numptie this function is for Work Study qualified persons to rate @ the outset of a work situation.
Undefined
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But the slower she did it, the longer she could delay what would happen next.
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Passes were flubbed, unnecessary offsides were infuriatingly common, play was slower and the general skill level was clearly inferior.
Globe and Mail
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Her lyrics are rich with this unresolved duality, as is her music: cabaret-style waltzes come across as both coquettish and menacing, and her slower songs can be both cavernous and hopeful.
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The auto coupe's 0-60 time of 5.1 seconds is just a tenth slower than the manual's.
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Four conspicuous jerks forwards, with slower retreats, were seen on one occasion to occur in exactly one minute, besides some minor oscillations.
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They may not face the dreaded inner-city bureau queue but the less frequent presentation of serious enquiries makes training slower.
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It is also a story of budgetary and bureaucratic politics producing a device that, however miraculous, wound up being slower, balkier and less useful than it might have been.
We Can See Clearly Now
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We had to be less developed to pass through a smaller, bipedal apes cervix, and as a result developed longer and slower, but further than our ape cousins.
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Though it was slower than most roller coasters, its high-tech hydraulics made it seem speedier and jerkier.
Fighting G-Force
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Horses trotted through the dirt streets, pulling buckboards and tally-hos past slower-moving electrified trolley cars.
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Adolescent languor returns too, and a slower pace of life: lazing around all day talking, laughing, listening to music, skulking around so as not to get caught by adults.
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They walk very slow. In the comparative both slower and more slowly are used:Can you speak slower/more slowly?
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Don't overlook the slower students.
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He said that slower rate of growth and rapid increase of population has multiplied the woes of Northeast and halted its economic development.
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Although slower than a CD-RW drive, it's not too bad considering that it's first-generation technology.
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'The Bachelor' week 6 recap: Courtney goes topless, but Ben ironically overwhelmed by overeager Blakely, Jamie While the model was busy bringing her A-game, the other women were moving at a much-slower, 'prude'-like pace ABC
NYDN Rss
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Finally somebody spoke; some imbecilic remark about how valets were getting slower every day.
COLDHEART CANYON
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It is not an indicator of instability; even though the bike is highly unstable when shimmying, it can be an extremely stable bike just a few miles per hour slower.
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? George Carlin
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Even more impressive is the car's overtaking performance once outside the city limits, where the boost from the turbocharger enables the car to whoosh past slower traffic in a very relaxed way.
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Even when a program contains only a single thread running on a single processor, a synchronized method call is still slower than an unsynchronized method call.
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However, he still suffers co-ordination problems with his left hand making it difficult for him to tie shoelaces and fasten buttons, and is a bit slower when giving answers to questions.
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The bounce tends to get lower and slower at St George's and defending a total is often preferable to chasing.
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Children also took part in period dances including the lively farandole from Provence and the slower pavan, both dating back to the time of Tudor kings and queens.
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Dima was moving hastily up the street as he followed at a slower pace.
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Now, one thing I do not know was whether he had nose wheel steering, which we have when we taxi the airplane at slower speeds.
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The second pathway is slower and independent of benzene concentration.
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The female merganser, more subtle than her mate, may be slower to draw the eye, but is just as beautiful.
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Switzerland, with its generally slower pace and its thorough political debates before votes are held, may be the exception.
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Then finish the walk at a slower pace.
Living with Angina
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She was nothing like as weatherly and far slower; the brig would headreach and weather on her.
Hornblower And The Crisis
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(depending on the dosage I took), but then its potency would taper off and it would become even slower before it was out of my bloodstream after 4 hours time. created "aspart" and marketed it as NovoLog/NovoRapid (UK-CAN) as a rapid acting insulin analogue.
Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes
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The slower the film speed, the finer the grain and the intensity of the colours will be better.
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After all many wireless networks exist only to share much slower speed broadband connections.
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Soon, progress would be slower after they left the autoroute and turned north to Dinan.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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On alternate days walk at a slower pace to help you build up a regular habit of walking.
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They had slower reaction times for visual and auditory stimuli, as well as subtle chorea, dystonia, and nystagmus.
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They had slower reaction times for visual and auditory stimuli, as well as subtle chorea, dystonia, and nystagmus.
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Still, a best-case scenario would be slower-than-normal economic growth of about 2% in the fourth quarter, say many economists.
Bull? Bear? Bring It On!
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The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
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Had it possibly been sidetracked for some reason in order to allow the slower train to go past?
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While the ragtop is a bit slower to 60 mph (4.9 seconds, compared with 4.6 for the coupe) and a half-second more leisurely through the quarter-mile (13.4 seconds), the retracted top cures the low-roof coupe's biggest functional liability: massive rear-quarter blind spots and desperately limited outward visibility.
A Genuine Ragtop Road Monster, Leaks and All
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With a yet slower rhythm than the polar ice, the tides of civilization ebbed and flowed across the galaxy.
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keyed" or "timed" much slower than her husband, as is quite often the case, coitus is very liable to be a very one-sided affair, one in which the _husband gets all the satisfaction, and the wife little or_
Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise
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Fuel oil with a higher centistoke rating has a slower flow rate.
Korea East-West Power Seeks Fuel Oil for Dec.-Jan. Delivery - Bloomberg
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More importantly, the soil moved by the water over the seed is composed of fine soil particles that are tightly packed, increasing the potential for crusting and making emergence slower and more difficult.
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In fact, sometimes multithreading something can make it slower.
Firefox Joining The Multi-Process Movement | Lifehacker Australia
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Somewhat frustratingly they do show the occasional flash of inspiration, generally during their less frequent slower numbers.
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Just a little slower, maybe let the needle slip back down toward eighty, maybe seventy.
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Investors were overoptimistic on BYD's performance, and I expect some downward earnings revisions going forward to reflect its margin squeeze amid intensifying competition for its battery division and slower growth of its auto business," said Johnny Wong, an analyst at Yuanta Research.
BYD's Profit Report Disappoints
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It was a slow day at work on the Monday before Melbourne Cup and the wheels of the Victorian bureaucracy were grinding slower than usual.
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In summary, the programme of reforms aimed to stabilize the economy has progressed much slower than anticipated.
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But if you prune back hard or after the tree leafs out in spring, it may be slower to come into bloom that year.
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I always had the feeling the flintlock had a much slower lock time than the Colt cap and ball revolver.
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The game is being played at walking pace at the moment and if the Italian players were ambling around any slower they'd be stationary.
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Evaporation is faster (and accompanied by a slower loss of strength) in a dry cellar, resulting in an undesirably harsh style of brandy.
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Impulsively, the Squat swung the trike to pull alongside, so that one wheel dragged on the slower strip.
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Electric ranges and cooktops are slower to heat and cool than gas ones.
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Classic biocontrol is generally slower acting than chemical pesticides, so noticeable results may take several years.
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Although an evaluation found fundholding had no effect on overall rates of referral, fundholding practices did have a slower rate of rise in referral rates than non-fundholding practices.
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Don't wolf down your food. Eat slower.
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My perfect holiday involves changing my pace from frenetic to something much slower and more languid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Interval training alternates repeated spurts of intensive activity with timed spans of slower periods of the same activity.
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She was a slither slower last night but trounced the rest nonetheless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trading programs tend to be undemanding and run well on older, slower machines.
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At the same time, increased uncertainty has meant investors have been slower to move out of supersafe Treasurys into corporate bonds, leaving more opportunities for those willing to take that risk.
Bubble in Corporate Bonds? Portfolio Managers Mostly Say No
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Clocks go faster or slower over time, batteries and power sources go dead, or important time changes, such as daylight saving, can be forgotten.
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The second mutant phenotype is a slower rate of photoreceptive disk membrane renewal in the outer segments, caused by perturbed phagocytosis of disk membranes.
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Plantings behind soybeans and corn or milo are coming slower.
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You learn to go a bit quicker here and a bit slower there.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other traditional data storage, nearline archiving, involves moving the data to a slower media such as robotic tape and laser or magnetic optical jukeboxes.
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When they could get it to work properly, it would only last about 1 hour, then it would revert back to being slower than frozen molasse.
SBC: Our Best DSL Quarter Ever
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The rate of the fall was slower than the 16.2 percent plunge in June, the Economic Development Board said.
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When they entered the sacred, haunted place, Takeshi walked at a slower pace, showing respect for those who were buried there.
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The traffic got slower and slower until it was stationary.
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This will push up inflation and contribute to slower economic growth.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a tendency for illnesses to become more prolonged, less intense and for the recovery to be slower.
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The metaphysical mode of explanation, being less antagonistic than the theological to the idea of invariable laws, is still slower in being entirely discarded.
Auguste Comte and Positivism
