Sentences with phrase «of at a snails pace»

You start of at a snails pace and as you shoot and dodge your way through the ten levels full of asteroids, space structures and mine fields trying to stay in one piece, your ship increases in speed.

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Though the company now claims more than 310 million monthly active users, that figure has increased at a snail's pace over the past couple of years — a major concern for any social network.

The resource super-cycle that drove valuations so much higher over the last decade is now hobbling along at a snail's pace and China is a big part of the reason why.

Most of the major exchanges that convert crypto - currency into fiat currency (eg: USD, Euros) do so only at a snails pace and only exchange BTC or ETH.

They managed managed only 63 yards at a snail's pace of 2.7 yards per carry.

Ox, Walcott and bale left Soton at the same stage of their career.Bale has exploded really.Walcott and Ox are developing at sub snail pace..

I sat down intending to work on my own sweater (moving at a snail's pace, that one), but ended up whipping three of these out over the course of the weekend.

but I still stand by my initial feelings - if this is what it takes to bring attention to the cause, so be it - because Lord knows the rest of us have been shouting about it for decade (s) and progress had been moving at a snails pace, which was so frustrating.

I make a point of attending Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrat meetings at conference and generally find a palpable sense of frustration with the snail's pace progress.

Vertebrate evolution generally proceeds at far less than a snail's pace, making study of the process in living animals difficult at best.

But there was a very important difference between then and now: the rate of fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in the past appeared in many cases to have been at a snail's pace compared to recent increases - and today's levels continue to go up exponentially - faster and faster and faster.

Conquering the World at a Snail's Pace (17/09/2014) The expansion of the invasive Mediterranean Tramp Slug... more

yea i was thinking a lot about that, in 2 weeks i will ramp up on barbell bench to 5 reps I'm kind of scared, it is a different excersise and i don't want to mess my pec up, btw i will post on my Facebook soon as i get 90s for 50 or if i can figure how to upload to u tube, il say this though for some reason i notice others on here have been making progress on adding reps and weight, not at my pace but still impressive, when i used to do low reps, progress was slow as snails, the only complaint i have with the high rep benching is that after 2 sets like with 85 or even when i was a t 70 lbs to keep doing sets over 20 taxes my shoulders, this is why i do 2 sets now and go to inclines and anyway I'm trying to build the upper area anyway.

All of the squat racks were being used by guys working at a snail's pace, so we ended up doing our squats on the smith machine.

When your key hormones are out of whack, energy levels can take a major dive and your metabolism crawls along at a snail's pace — especially as we age.

This week seemed to go at a snails pace and I sort of feel like I have way to much to do and there aren't enough hours in the day.

The trip back was a strenuous ride, except for maybe Nixon who fell asleep in his stroller and hubby who was cruising along at a snail's pace for the sake of his very tired and very slow family members.

image This week seemed to go at a snails pace and I sort of feel like I have way to much to do and there aren't enough hours in the day.

Oh yeah, and you're not the only one who thought of this, so why do you think that drain in the dorms is running at a snails pace.

Dating today is different to years gone by, where the process of finding someone you connect with moved at a snail's pace.

But it all runs at a snail's pace in terms of

Sincere as it patently is, and perfectly competently made, Goodbye Bafana progresses through the last years of the apartheid regime at a snail's pace.

But it all runs at a snail's pace in terms of performance, even to this day with my stellar gaming PC.

This is sadly still happening, Nintendo is releasing games at a snail pace and the games they are releasing are still just ports of games from the PS3 and 360.

As a screenwriter - for this picture at least - Devos puts too much stock in his visual style to carry the meaning of a thinly plotted, snail - paced slice - of - life.

Critics Consensus: Despite the best efforts of its talented leads, The Astronaut's Wife moves at a snail's pace and fails to generate enough intrigue to keep viewers engaged.

Ultimately, even at an extended 138 minutes, the snail - pace of Les gardiennes doesn't get in the way of the film.

Critic Consensus: Despite the best efforts of its talented leads, The Astronaut's Wife moves at a snail's pace and fails to generate enough intrigue to keep viewers engaged.

But Last Days works only when it deviates from this pattern, as it does in a hilarious scene depicting the rock star's friendly yet indifferent agreement to buy space in the yellow pages from a clueless door - to - door salesman (Thadeus A. Thomas, the movie's only perfectly cast actor), or when it focuses on other members of Blake's entourage, or when the camera retreats at a snail's pace from the mansion for what feels like eternity.

But the story is a mess, and proceeds at a snail's pace in spite of the almost nonstop action (how is that possible?).

Unfortunately, the action moves at snail's pace, with the rather brief running time of only 95 minutes seeming like far longer.

This mode has a much quicker pace then the rest of the game, which makes for probably the most strategy along with plenty of action that doesn't move at the snails pace.

In the hands of director Luca Guadagnino and legendary screenwriter / director James Ivory (former partner of the late Ismail Merchant — the two made dozens of indie films under the name of Merchant Ivory Productions), the relationship between Elio and Oliver builds at a snail's pace.

The film may move at a snail's pace, but it's never boring, creating suspense out of something as innocuous as retrieving sealed court documents.

The newspaper faulted the superintendent for «moving at a snail's pace» on school reform and argued that she suffers from a lack of vision and poor...

In contrast to the public sector where large, discordant teams of administrators move at a snail's pace to improve schools, Edison faces the constant threat of losing clients, he explains.

«We have progress, but at a snail's pace,» said Jane Ransom, the president of Women and Foundations / Corporate Philanthropy, an affinity group of the council that conducted the study.

M&C's argument seems compelling when one considers the snail's pace progress of virtual education at the K - 12 level, as compared with the speed with which virtual education is disrupting the less unionized system of higher education.

Controlling the throttle and brakes, Crawl Control can inch the LX down steep slopes at a snail's pace, freeing the driver to fully concentrate on the job of navigation and obstacle avoidance.

But below - seasonal temperatures combined with too many timid motorists crawling along at a snail's pace at the first sign of a snowflake have had a negative effect on my psyche.

Lexus requires all manner of different tasks to be completed before it backs into a space at a snail's pace.

Has the snail's pace of change in the publishing industry meant that authors and readers don't care about these efforts at inclusion when there are already so many outlets to connect them?

Of course you give up a lot of control and things move at a snail's pace so there's a big tradeofOf course you give up a lot of control and things move at a snail's pace so there's a big tradeofof control and things move at a snail's pace so there's a big tradeoff.

Even at only one per year (a snail's pace) he could have announced the submission or publication of his 12th novel this morning.

While legal proceedings move at a snail's pace, it's not surprising that the ongoing lawsuit filed against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers is still slowly unfolding.

UK readers are buying eReaders from Waterstone's at a snail's pace of 3,000 eReaders a month.

North America's largest privately - owned passenger rail company, the Rocky Mountaineer, weaves through the saw - tooth landscapes of Alberta and B.C. at «Kodak speed» — a snail's - pace that has passengers permanently glued to the canyon - hugging windows.

We have gone through basic obedience w / her, had a private session w / our trainer due to her anxiety when we leave her and her fear of, and thus propensity to snap at kids who approach her at more than a snail's pace.

Household warmth can keep the cocooned larvae alive until conditions are ripe for emergence of the adults and may even allow life cycles to continue at a snail's pace.

Over four years and hundreds of sick and dead pets since their first warning to consumers, the FDA continues to proceed at a snail's pace investigating just what the problem is with chicken jerky treats from China.