I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car slows down
▪ The car slowed down and stopped outside our house.
a clock is fast/slow (=shows a later or earlier time than the real time)
▪ There’s no need to hurry – that clock’s fast.
a faster/slower rate
▪ The urban population has grown at a faster rate than the rural population.
a slow learner (=someone who learns things slowly)
▪ The computer program means that slow learners can practise as long as they need to.
a slow movement
▪ the slow movements of the old man
a slow recovery
▪ A slow recovery in the hotel market is likely to hold back the company’s profits.
a slow smile
▪ A slow smile spread across his face.
a slow start
▪ Work got off to a very slow start because of bad weather.
a slow train (also a stopping train British English) (= one that stops at a lot of places)
▪ We got on the stopping train by mistake and it took hours to get home.
a slow/fast reader
▪ Her son was quite a slow reader.
at low/slow speed
▪ Even at low speed, an accident could mean serious injury for a child.
die a sudden/violent/slow etc death
▪ At the end of the play, the main character dies a violent death.
fast/slow etc grower
▪ Bamboo is a very vigorous grower.
fast/slow moving etc
▪ Be careful when changing lanes in fast-moving traffic.
good/bad/slow etc service
▪ The service was terrible and so was the food.
hard/rough/slow etc going
▪ I’m getting the work done, but it’s slow going.
have good/quick/slow reflexes
▪ A tennis player needs to have very quick reflexes.
sb’s watch is slow/runs slow (=it shows an earlier time)
▪ 'He’s late.' 'Maybe his watch is running slow.'
sb’s watch is slow/runs slow (=it shows an earlier time)
▪ 'He’s late.' 'Maybe his watch is running slow.'
slow but/and steady
▪ She is making a slow but steady recovery.
slow cooking
▪ Slow cooking gives the dish a better flavour.
slow lane
▪ The country is expected to remain in the slow lane of economic recovery.
slow motion
▪ Let’s see that goal again in slow motion.
slow puncture (=one that lets air out very slowly)
slow
▪ Her pulse was slow but steady.
slow
▪ The task remains difficult and progress has been slow.
slow
▪ Collecting the data is a slow process.
slow
▪ The pace of life in the countryside is slower.
slow
▪ Economists are forecasting a period of slow growth.
slow/slow-moving
▪ Traffic’s very slow going out of New York.
the economy slows down
▪ The US economy is slowing down after a long period of growth.
the fast/slow lane
▪ Cars in the fast lane were travelling at over 80 miles an hour.
the pace slows/slackens
▪ After a surge in exports, the pace slackened considerably the following year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
much
▪ For example, last year it became evident that terminal responses at peak times were becoming much slower.
▪ Decision-making tends to be much slower and this is often the reason for such slowness.
▪ McNeill Alexander adopted a different analytical technique, and came up with a much slower dinosaur than Bakker's.
▪ She had justified her behaviour to herself on the basis that the police would have been much slower and more painstaking.
▪ There would be higher taxes and, at best, much slower growth in public spending.
▪ This leaves the unfortunate animal to crawl away and die a much slower death than if hounds had caught him.
▪ Phone-ins on radio can provide speedy feedback, but by and large feedback is much slower in the mass media than in interpersonal communications.
▪ The ionophore-induced responses were much slower than those induced by forskolin.
painfully
▪ Although painfully slow, it meant he could construct small sentences.
▪ But the council got off to a painfully slow start.
▪ Still, too many of them, like too many people throughout the division, remained painfully slow in taking action.
▪ In spite of this painfully slow start, today he is a millionaire.
▪ Piecemeal Development Attempting to build a school-to-work system company by company and school by school is painfully slow.
▪ There is every indication that youth apprenticeships will continue to grow in the United States, but at a painfully slow rate.
▪ The painfully slow elevators, whose speed can be measured in millimeters per hour.
▪ The school building program -.. is creeping along at a painfully slow clip.
rather
▪ By later standards they were rather slow cars, but the trucks gave a smooth ride on straight track.
▪ That may be a rather slow speed compared with that of light.
▪ I said that this was almost certain but the process was rather slow.
▪ Flight rather slow and flapping, recalling larger gulls, when hunting over water; also soars and hovers.
▪ In fact I've had to conclude that I am generally rather slow on the uptake.
▪ Frau Grossman was rather slow in forwarding it.
▪ He was rather slow, rather ponderous.
▪ We are making rather slow progress today.
relatively
▪ One reason for the Surrealists' relatively slow climb since 1975 is that they were highly valued then.
▪ Most casino operators in Las Vegas were dogged by a relatively slow year following boom years in 1993 and 1994.
▪ These characteristics make for relatively slow, concrete, and restricted thought.
▪ You want a relatively slow but controlled and permanent solution to your weight problem.
▪ And character recognition is relatively slow and prone to errors even on powerful computers.
▪ This current path has a small resistance and no opposing voltage, so the decay of current is relatively slow.
▪ Transport has been relatively slow to see much benefit from the information technology revolution.
so
▪ Progress was so slow that many found it quicker to abandon their carriages and continue on foot.
▪ The process is so slow that contemporaries never notice it.
▪ The pace is slow, so slow that lots of things are unfinished.
▪ It dripped like a slow percolation through limestone, so slow that she forgot it between drops.
▪ Why was Britain so slow to develop a national system of education before 1914?
▪ Since travel was so slow, these commercial transactions took a long time to complete.
▪ He's so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless.
▪ Demand is so slow that the price index fell to 40. 8 % in December from 44. 5 %.
too
▪ They tried to leap over the sandbags, but were too slow.
▪ Systems required too much resource and became too slow.
▪ But it was too slow, or too stupid: I just had time to grab her angles and pull her away.
▪ Meanwhile, customers were also unhappy Kodak was too slow, too late, and too error ridden.
▪ The parents continued to find Ramsey's progress too slow.
▪ A shovel had been too slow and cumbersome.
▪ The drive to the airport was too slow for Duncan.
▪ The build-up of phase current to its rated value would be too slow for satisfactory operation of the motor at high speeds.
very
▪ Constant very slow water flow should take place inside the media preventing true dead areas forming to leach back impurities.
▪ Saguaro cactus are very slow growing.
▪ Messenger and Outlook Express both decode automatically within the window, but are very slow.
▪ The mountains, the waters of the ocean, and the gases of the sky were very slow life.
▪ It has been in operation for 100 years and is proceeding at a very slow rate.
▪ Curiously, it was actually very slow to happen in the financial services markets.
▪ Propagation in the aquarium is very slow and rare.
■ NOUN
growth
▪ The balancing slower growth was supplied by the portmanteau of miscellaneous services.
▪ His pacifism, like his social philosophy, was a slow growth.
▪ During the 1960's there was slow growth with more rapid growth during the early 1970's.
▪ This plant likes moving water and grows well when placed next to the filtering system, which enhances their normally slow growth.
▪ Temperatures below this slow down further its normal slow growth.
▪ The unwillingness of oil-consuming societies to check their spending resulted in the phenomenon of stagflation: slow growth combined with inflation.
▪ That was slower growth, in percentage terms, than many of its peers enjoyed.
learner
▪ Eventual guaranteed success is often a very desirable aspect, especially for young or slow learners.
▪ By portraying herself as a slow learner, Wong affords her reader a superior and even a smug position.
▪ Actually he majored in Phys Ed, but to tell you the truth, Rickie was always a slow learner.
▪ What a slow learner I am!
▪ He introduced a quite different strand: I was a slow learner.
▪ Indeed, they were probably worried about why the baby was a slow learner.
▪ In Balbinder's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner.
▪ Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Labour party is a party of slow learners?
movement
▪ At its heart is a slow movement of great intensity and spellbinding simplicity, magically performed.
▪ But even the slow movements are lovely.
▪ Here in the slow movement she allowed the gentle principal theme to flow naturally and above all musically.
▪ To Western ears, the wind playing in the slow movement will probably sound execrable.
▪ The slow movement of this performance is particularly fine, with pianissimos that have you catching your breath.
▪ It will be seen from tables 1 and 2 that such very slow movements were more frequent than one might expect.
▪ His preference for very measured speeds in slow movements leads him to at least one serious miscalculation.
▪ By contrast he is equally adept at setting a tone of meditative rapture in the slower movements.
pace
▪ He fell from power in 1987, resigning from the Politburo over the slow pace of reform.
▪ The increase was at a slower pace than in the second quarter, however, suggesting gains in efficiency may be peaking.
▪ Travel went at a very slow pace.
▪ What you do not do is rush it by warming it up; just let it grow at its own slow pace.
▪ Thus, for the question about the slow pace of educational change you could set a paragraph to answer the following questions.
▪ Bloomfield Hills, Canton and Carleton have grown at the slowest pace.
▪ Then Wallace hit a good cross which Speed side footed the volley at very slow pace into the net.
▪ Indeed, the slow pace of communications has earned the Web a new nickname: the World Wide Wait.
process
▪ The slowest processes come at the top of the hierarchy, and provide the environment for faster processes.
▪ During this slow process, what was happening in the South?
▪ For a start, the introduction of the changes enshrined in the new Charities Act will be a slow process.
▪ To the extent that proletarianization is occurring, it may be a long, slow process.
▪ The Government is restoring several of them as holiday flats, a slow process but tastefully done.
▪ Even 20 or 30 years ago, finding the fish was a slow process.
▪ The intention behind the book is furthering the necessarily slow process of changing values.
▪ When it does, it is not an event but a painful and slow process.
progress
▪ Even with computers it is extremely difficult, as the slow progress shows.
▪ In the morning a bicycle made its slow progress across the fields.
▪ And she knew absolutely everything, which must have made her particularly disappointed in Frankie's slow progress at school.
▪ The boat was making very slow progress in heavy seas.
▪ We are making rather slow progress today.
▪ Surprisingly, in a society fascinated by technology, the aeroplane made slow progress.
▪ The fact that food and water were running out due to slow progress, demoralized me still further.
▪ For Jez, each day is hard work, with slow progress, and sometimes with disappointment.
rate
▪ In the laboratory, males had a significantly slower rate of growth, but still matured earlier than females.
▪ Because the elderly often experience a decline in liver function, these drugs are metabolized at a slower rate.
▪ These will maintain growth but at slower rates than with live food.
▪ Or alternatively, if time is passing at a slower rate on the moving train.
▪ It has been in operation for 100 years and is proceeding at a very slow rate.
▪ The cursor, by the way, appears boldfaced but blinking at a slower rate than the cursor in the text itself.
▪ Any slower rate, as for example in the first half of the eighteenth century, allowed real wages to rise.
▪ Consumers, overloaded with debt, have cut back new borrowing to the slowest rate in two years.
reader
▪ The main conclusion to be drawn here is that the way to aid slow readers is to improve their word-recognition skills.
▪ He was one of the slow readers who met with me for extra work from time to time.
▪ He was a slow reader, and his lips moved as he followed the words.
▪ Her good readers are voracious and read their weight in books every week, while the slow readers lag behind.
▪ The eyes of the slow reader will stop on each word before moving on to the next one.
▪ Have you ever watched people reading to themselves, slow readers who move their lips silently as they read?
smile
▪ A slow smile, almost sad.
▪ Cutty smiled his slow smile that expressed no joy.
▪ He moved with a delicacy that emphasised his power, and he had a slow smile and a gentle handshake.
▪ A slow smile spread across his face as he realized that it must be Ace with the Marines.
▪ Roman's slow smile was infinitely sardonic.
▪ A slow smile spreads over her lips.
speed
▪ With the slower speeds the qualifying heats as well as the race itself were almost injury-free this year.
▪ People have become frustrated with the inability to get online and the slow speeds of the Internet.
▪ The slowest speeds, however, are already quite fast and there is little practical room for manipulation beyond them.
▪ Speedsensitive steering too sensitive at slow speeds.
▪ Earlier types have run at high power, even when manoeuvring at slow speed, to keep the skirt inflated.
▪ That may be a rather slow speed compared with that of light.
▪ That is impossible - due to the numbers of the missiles, their range and slow speed.
▪ On slowest speed, mix in the flour and baking soda.
start
▪ After a slow start John Campbell managed to raise a further £90 for the Fund.
▪ But the council got off to a painfully slow start.
▪ But Mercury is making a slow start.
▪ He has had a very slow start this season, though.
▪ Garah, who split a pastern last year, overcame a slow start to win the Stetchworth Maiden Stakes.
▪ And the work got off to a very slow start.
▪ The picture is one of a slow start followed by years of sustained rapid growth.
▪ In spite of this painfully slow start, today he is a millionaire.
train
▪ I missed the slower trains with the lounge cars and the rackety wheels.
▪ I changed in Edinburgh to a slower train.
▪ The drive from Reims was a long one, but it was still better than taking the slow train down from Paris.
▪ Not me, after encountering one of these suits on a go-slow train.
▪ In truth, this one has been something more akin to a slow train coming.
▪ Or persuade the operators of a slow train to Ulan Bator to put his Beatles cassette on the public-address system?
▪ What they did not realize was that the express train had a restaurant car and the slow train did not.
walk
▪ Blake's slow walk appeared to unnerve them.
▪ I learned the grammar, the ritual behavior, the slow walk of openings.
▪ My diary this Saturday showed a very slow walk past trees and stones and gateways which the lines on her face remembered.
▪ We moved about a hundred feet at a slow walk.
▪ She liked nothing better than a nice slow walk round a cemetery as a rule.
▪ After a slow walk past the dustbins he found nothing of interest except a bag of rusty washers and an old tap.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fast/slow etc walker
be quick/slow/first etc off the mark
▪ Salad crops, however, are quick off the mark.
▪ This time, they were slow off the mark.
be slow/quick on the uptake
in the slow lane
▪ As always since the Government came into power, we are in the slow lane.
▪ Old fogey that I am, after that I stayed in the slow lane, poking along at 80 or 90.
▪ Would you expect him to poke along in the slow lane?
long/slow haul
▪ Can we clean out the garage at last and buy for the long haul?
▪ In the long haul, Rex wanted what we all want, a measure of financial security.
▪ It is necessary to get things into perspective before the long haul to the Southern Hemisphere, though.
▪ Miles per gallon Then, on a long haul, it wouldn't go up hill or overtake on the flat.
▪ Over the long haul, how you see others may be even more important in helping your dreams come true.
▪ That would be a long haul.
▪ The county could subsidize the longer hauls from North County through a discount on tip fees.
▪ Those who do not fancy long haul can share short flights between two or three budding pilots.
slow handclap
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Where are y'all from?" he asked in a slow Southern drawl.
▪ slow economic growth
▪ a slow learner
▪ Climate change is a very slow process.
▪ Danny is a little bit slow.
▪ Farmers in the region have been slow to adopt modern agricultural methods.
▪ February is the slowest month in the tourist trade.
▪ For the first few months that I was taking lessons, my progress was extremely slow.
▪ I was always one of the slowest runners in my class.
▪ It's been a pretty slow day.
▪ My computer's really slow compared to the ones at school.
▪ Rebuilding the country's economy is likely to be a long, slow process.
▪ She's making a slow recovery after her illness.
▪ The CIA has been slow in turning over the documents that Congress requested.
▪ The train was slow, noisy, and uncomfortable.
▪ They are notoriously slow workers.
▪ Things have been slow, real slow, for months now.
▪ We danced to all the slow songs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He's so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless.
▪ In the home this usually means the telephone line, which is fine for voice but excruciatingly slow for data.
▪ It was slow, unbearable torture that would drive any man insane.
▪ Life as ever-renewing mineral, and minerals as slow life.
▪ Some patients experience a slow decline in their health as the effectiveness of the drugs gradually decreases.
▪ The closer you sail, the slower you go and viceversa.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
▪ It skidded slightly and slowed down.
▪ Instead of slowing down and driving through the snow and ice like sensible individuals, they drive like idiots.
▪ Read in studio Police are parading a range of race and rally cars in an attempt to make speeding motorists slow down.
▪ When food goes back into the refrigerator, growth begins to slow down, but only as the food chills.
▪ Sails were hauled in and the ship started to slow down.
▪ What did I do, press a button or something? Slow down.
▪ But they still haven't kept pace with the population even though it is slowing down now.
▪ Affect can speed up or slow down the rate of development.
■ NOUN
car
▪ A police car slowed down, the two young officers looked carefully.
▪ Leaving the restaurant, Brooks started up State Street where his car was slowed by pedestrians leaving the harbor.
▪ The car slowed down and a chill swept over as she caught a glimpse of the driver.
▪ He barked viciously; lunging with all his might as the car slowed down and seemed about to stop.
▪ I glance in the rear-view mirror to see other cars close behind; slowing down but then speeding up again.
▪ Auto dealers also may feel some pain as car sales will slow after two strong years.
▪ I was almost at the corner of Stuart Street when a car slowed up into the corner of my eye.
▪ Suddenly, the cars ahead of me slowed and formed a long line.
crawl
▪ It seemed to take for ever, slowing to a crawl as it drew parallel with him.
▪ Industrial expansion had slowed to a crawl.
▪ Adam slowed to a crawl, as if stopping for him.
▪ And discussions over the construction of theme parks and movie theaters slowed to a crawl.
▪ Sometimes when the movie slows to a crawl, they chain-smoke while wearing hats.
▪ Here, though, time slows to a crawl.
▪ The ball just seemed to slow down and crawl through the air....
demand
▪ Current financial problems in some importing countries may slow down growth in demand.
▪ A slowing in demand and inventories start to build quickly.
▪ Concern about slowing demand for petrol and a recent fall in crude prices has pushed Opec towards tough action on supply.
▪ Richmond: Business activity slowed, and demand declined for temporary workers.
▪ To slow down the demand, McLaren began charging £30 a copy.
economy
▪ That is a reflection of the fact that the world economy is slowing down.
▪ Analysts said lower mortgage rates have helped to spur demand for housing even as other parts of the economy have slowed.
▪ The economy may be slowing down.
▪ That suggests the economy may slow even more in the first half of this year.
▪ The national economy has slowed to about half the 4. 1 percent growth rate of 1994.
▪ Signs that the economy is slowing after years of expansion has weighed on stocks in recent weeks.
▪ Interest rates of all types have been falling as the economy slows and inflation fears recede.
flow
▪ Sitting still reduces this action, slowing blood flow and increasing the chances of clotting.
▪ This simply slows the flow of traffic and causes unnecessary and frustrating delays.
growth
▪ Deflation hit productivity growth which slowed down somewhat.
▪ But the rate of growth was already slowing from 2.4 % per year down to 1.8 % in the 1990s.
▪ When food goes back into the refrigerator, growth begins to slow down, but only as the food chills.
▪ Economic growth is slowing, but should still be a respectable 5 percent this year.
▪ Raising funds has become increasingly expensive for banks, as deposit growth slows.
▪ Economic growth is already slowing fast.
▪ When they are made, growth will slow down.
inflation
▪ Interest rates of all types have been falling as the economy slows and inflation fears recede.
market
▪ As the economy slows, the markets are likely to trim their estimates of sustainable growth in both productivity and profits.
pace
▪ On the other hand, the pace of counterurbanization has slowed considerably in the past decade.
▪ The time frame is geologic, the pace excruciatingly slow.
▪ Once Abraham can see the place where he will kill his son, the pace of the narrative slows right down.
▪ Since November, the pace of borrowing likely slowed as department and chain stores reported dismal holiday sales.
▪ Their pace did not slow as they entered the sea and they advanced in a solid human wall.
▪ Postures change, pace slows, bustle becomes murmur.
▪ And now the pace slowed, leaf by leaf rose, quivered erect, and slowly descended.
▪ Her pace slowed even more as she thought of the house dark and sour with grief.
process
▪ As the temperature falls the process slows, and below 10oC the development from egg to L3 usually can not take place.
▪ With aging, many body processes slow down, affecting the way medications are absorbed and eliminated.
▪ Some genes promote the process, others slow it down.
▪ But instead of simply fighting the proposal, the neighborhood association asked for the process to be slowed down.
▪ Most redistribution took place in the early 1980s and the process then slowed.
▪ In the Middle East a promising peace process is slowed.
▪ The same process slows the moon's rotation as well.
▪ The bilateral process has slowed down and there is little prospect of accelerating it or involving the smaller nuclear powers.
progress
▪ The longer stride actually slowed his progress by 30 percent, exactly as the model had predicted.
▪ Ignoring it has slowed medical progress considerably in two ways.
▪ A closed door stops draughts spreading the flames, and dramatically slows the progress of a fire.
▪ The crowd slowed her progress, but she soon caught sight of him again, heading towards the door.
▪ New equipment was therefore brought sparingly or deferred altogether, thereby slowing relative progress still further.
▪ Old folk ambled, fanning themselves with hats or newspapers, slowing down their progress.
▪ It just slows down our progress.
▪ The continued presence of those units on the balance sheet is slowing progress to break even, the company has said.
rate
▪ When the rate of economic growth slowed, that of public expenditure did not.
▪ Quarterly growth rates consistently slowed from mid-1990 until late 1992 when they finally went negative.
▪ After a while your pulse rate slows and you come to think maybe these ordinary law-abiding folks ain't zombies after all.
▪ After a minute of this, your heart rate has slowed by 20 percent.
▪ S., subscriber growth rates are starting to slow.
▪ Growth rates slowed somewhat in the mid-1950s, yet were still in excess of seven percent.
▪ The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 percent a year.
sale
▪ Tie Rack looks rather out of fashion as sales slow down Outlook.
▪ What about the fact that personal-computer sales have slowed a bit lately?
▪ Meanwhile, auto sales are slowing and construction activity is weak.
▪ Auto dealers also may feel some pain as car sales will slow after two strong years.
▪ With the growth of software sales expected to slow, Microsoft will be forced to look afield for more revenue.
sign
▪ The Glory showed no sign of slowing up.
▪ Gretzky had 23 goals and 79 assists this past season but has shown signs of slowing down.
▪ The boom shows no sign of slowing.
▪ That trend shows no sign of slowing down.
▪ A record year in 1989 for new investment in the County shows no sign of slowing down.
▪ But the train showed no signs of slowing down, and there was no rain yet.
▪ Nor does Skoda show any sign of slowing down.
▪ And though she turned 76 last June, she shows no signs of slowing down.
speed
▪ But this means that data transfer between processor registers is slowed down to the speed of store access.
▪ Age has slowed her speed, but she uses the Dvorak keyboard and still wins accuracy awards.
▪ The passenger was far removed from an anonymous piece of card, and the parachutes correspondingly larger to slow the descent speed.
▪ A vessel equipped with Flettner rotors gains in manoeuvrability as lift is diminished by slowing a cylinder's speed of rotation.
▪ Morton slowed the speed a little, preparing to bring the boat to a halt when he needed to.
▪ A carbon-fibre brake disc shattered as he slowed from high speed, and his McLaren crashed into a guard rail.
traffic
▪ After the race, the track was redesigned to slow down traffic at the corners.
▪ She slowed down at the traffic lights by Sloane Street.
▪ The protesters have also staged go-slows and traffic disruptions on motorways, and caused severe disruption in Edinburgh and Liverpool.
▪ Read in studio A group of villagers say measures to slow down traffic on their main street have actually made things worse.
▪ The whole point of a speed camera is to slow the traffic down to the correct speed limit.
▪ This simply slows the flow of traffic and causes unnecessary and frustrating delays.
▪ Isn't it the aim of these measures to slow traffic down?
train
▪ The train was slowing slightly; they must be close to the station.
▪ Janir and the woman talked until the train slowed down and I stood up.
▪ Suddenly, Harry realized that the train was slowing.
▪ As the train slows, the man stands and walks to the closed doors at the middle of the car.
▪ The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them.
▪ As the train began slowing down for North Chittendon, I flattened myself against the window.
▪ I held the book in my hands as the train slowed at the signal box.
▪ What was more the train appeared to be slowing down quite markedly.
walk
▪ Sharpe slowed to a walk and drew his sword.
▪ I slowed to a walk, pouring sweat.
▪ Jean found herself running, but soon had to slow to a walk again.
▪ When he saw or heard other people, he slowed to a walk until they were past, then he ran again.
▪ I put my head down, slowed my walk to try to put my escort in front of me.
▪ He ran surprisingly fast on his stumpy legs but eventually he gave up and slowed to a despairing walk.
▪ They escaped into the relative quiet of Nails's cul-de-sac and slowed to a walk.
■ VERB
begin
▪ After a while the pumping of his heart began to slow down.
▪ When the business began to slow down, he decided that he would offer liquor to improve his profit margins.
▪ Then Tony pulled the lever and the wheel began to slow down.
▪ When food goes back into the refrigerator, growth begins to slow down, but only as the food chills.
▪ I began to slow down, keeping to the crown, looking out on my right.
▪ As the train began slowing down for North Chittendon, I flattened myself against the window.
▪ At last, however, the plates began to slow down and finally stopped coming.
▪ Time begins to slow down. 19.31 Steven falls through front door of house.
expect
▪ The move came just days before the Alameda-based networking company told investors it expected slowing sales for the next few quarters.
▪ However, that pace is expected to slow.
▪ Growth is expected to slow early this year, but investors are still waiting for the first economic evidence.
▪ With the growth of software sales expected to slow, Microsoft will be forced to look afield for more revenue.
▪ Underlying inflation was expected to slow to 2. 8 percent.
seem
▪ The pace of technological innovation in manufacturing does not seem to be slowing down.
▪ The sound of my voice did seem to slow Lincoln for an instant.
▪ However, the rate does seem to be slowing.
▪ Time seems to slow way down, in an uncanny way, as if everyone were moving in slow motion.
▪ Even the opposition seemed to slow in sympathy, but he still kept the ball and did quite well each time.
▪ The ball just seemed to slow down and crawl through the air....
▪ Their movements seemed gradually to slow down, as though, like Alice, they had stepped through the looking-glass.
▪ Time seemed to slow down as Christine fell into the executive transporter bay.
show
▪ The report shows launch activity slowed dramatically for the month of November.
▪ Some studies showed the seismic waves that passed through it speeding up; others showed them slowing down.
▪ The Glory showed no sign of slowing up.
▪ Gretzky had 23 goals and 79 assists this past season but has shown signs of slowing down.
▪ Figures released in January 1990 showed that growth had slowed sharply at the end of 1989.
▪ That trend shows no sign of slowing down.
▪ The boom shows no sign of slowing.
▪ But the train showed no signs of slowing down, and there was no rain yet.
start
▪ Strange, this detail at the two ends of day; the starting up and slowing down of things.
▪ It started slow and pumped itself full, swelling the men bigger and bigger.
▪ When California's economy started to slow down, the loans began to unravel.
▪ But as I started to slow down for the approach, I was too careful.
▪ When fermentation starts to slow down, a hard spile is used to control the escape of the gas.
▪ S., subscriber growth rates are starting to slow.
▪ Then it started to slow down, and I was sick.
▪ Our collective solution was to start slow.
try
▪ Fernando tried to slow the pace and Ruth clung to him breathlessly.
▪ All that human beings can do is to try to slow it down.
▪ He tried to slow her down with gestures which she interpreted as signs of denial, and so she poured it on.
▪ But Stella, please try to slow down.
▪ Kline and Langer try to slow them down.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All this paperwork has really slowed up our application process.
▪ Traffic slowed to a crawl as we approached the accident site.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A closed door stops draughts spreading the flames, and dramatically slows the progress of a fire.
▪ Even as I battled my fears with frenetic bursts of activity, whenever I slowed down I knew I was unprepared.
▪ I know life in Hollywood is fast-paced, but could you guys slow down a little?
▪ Instead of slowing down, the pentecostals are growing faster than ever.
▪ My watch must have been gradually slowing to a stop all day.
▪ She apologized for slowing him down and twice advised him to leave her.
▪ The report shows launch activity slowed dramatically for the month of November.
III.adverbEXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ You'd better go pretty slow around this corner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A water supply was very slow coming to Baldersdale and never did arrive at Low Birk Hatt.
▪ Apple has been slow to license its operating system.
▪ If Mr Ridgley's varnish is slow drying, he can add a little paint driers.
▪ Men have been slow to face this prospect; some still hope that it may never become reality.
▪ Until then, her career had been slow to take off.
▪ While the federal policy shift began a decade ago, forest managers have been slow to put it into practice.