Sentences with phrase «almost standstill»

When there is no food coming into the system the GIT motility slows to almost a standstill.

After petroleum prices started to drop last year, the country's remarkable economic growth over the last few years came to an almost standstill.

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Sometimes the walk almost comes to a standstill.

Oh, that has been at a standstill since he was born and he is almost 2.

Traffic here is almost always at a standstill, giving your car the closest thing to a permanent address.

With negotiations at a standstill, the de Blasio administration played hardball: the Office of Labor Relations reduced the carpenters» paid time off to almost nothing, down from a combined 39 vacation and sick days, and ended annuity payments.

And I think what I found sort of aggravating and almost unbelievable as I was reporting the story was that the answers are so clear, and so many of these pesticides, from a scientific point of view, and yes the political process, has just almost come to a standstill.

And standstill to 62mph takes almost ten seconds.

There's enough grunt on tap to get the truck to 60 miles per hour from a standstill reportedly almost two seconds faster than the previous model, but with a curb weight of over 4,500 pounds and transmission that's a bit slow to make decisions, its pace still falls short of anything resembling urgency.

Porsche says the chassis «consists almost entirely of components from the 911 GT3», which is probably a good thing, seeing as this two - door can hit 60 mph from a standstill in only 4.2 seconds.

Watch the S race around a track, and you'll notice it almost looks like it's at a standstill even when it's cornering hard.

We'll miss each of these great artists, but Harry Crews» death brings almost to a standstill the Southern Gothic tradition that started gathering steam when the Dixie Limited, William Faulkner, started rolling down the tracks, picking up Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Larry Brown, James Dickey, Barry Hannah and Cormac McCarthy along the way.

In fact, one stretch of tarmac sees us almost at a standstill; the engine is briefly fired up, powering us to the next slope.

Anna Virnich's artistic practice focuses on textile - based tableaus, incorporating found fabrics as well as new materials, which the artist stretches on wooden frames thus creating organic and almost painterly compositions that oscillate between transparency and density, foreground and background, agility and standstill.

... Now, sales have almost come to a complete standstill.»