Sentences with phrase «very slow»

This was a very slow process that could take days, and it never produced more than a tiny amount of V (+5) in solution.

To answer Hart's question: The evaporation rate of black holes via Hawking radiation is very slow, and our PBHs have a significant abundance only in a range of around one solar mass.

This is the story of a very slow death of the narrator.

We are working with Periodical Watchguard, the attorney general's office, and the post office to report these problems and shut these companies down, but it's a very slow process.

But to geophysicists, Earth experiences a wide range of volatility — some of it very slow, some of it occurring at the rate of days or weeks.

«Deep - sea areas targeted by mining claims frequently harbor high biodiversity and fragile habitats, and may have very slow rates of recovery from physical disturbance,» said Craig Smith, a co-author and professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

In Angewandte Chemie, they demonstrate that you can make the nanosheets in less than a minute, while the synthesis process had been known to be very slow.

«Their lives are just very slow compared with ours,» he says.

That would require very slow pedaling.

A second paper suggested that these particles would have a very slow interaction rate — weak interactions, in other words.

«These patients weren't eating all that much; it was mainly a problem of having very slow metabolisms,» says Donald M. Whiting, one of the neurosurgeons leading the study.

«It's very, very slow.

Because it has been expected that they can get very old, and that's based on some observations of very, very slow growth... so the longevity could be exceptional and extreme, but it has just never been possible to investigate.»

«This is a very slow, labor intensive process that typically requires many months of effort, and frequently ends with discovering that the molecule does not have a new or interesting mechanism of action,» he added.

But they were the best trained scientists, and... progress is very slow.»

What the search for planetary transits has in common with the observation of starquakes is the need to stare at the same stars for a long time — long enough to detect very slow vibrations or to detect at least three transits of a planet.

«That's very slow going.

«But there's been a cloud on the horizon: patients in western Cambodia have been showing very, very slow parasite clearance.»

Results have shown that the degree of locking in the western part of the fracture zone is lower and that the two tectonic plates are creeping past one another at a very slow rate.

Though it enables precise atom - by - atom fabrication of nanostructures, the process is very slow because the low density of adsorbed gas molecules in the vacuum environment limits the amount of material available for fabrication.

So the conduction is very slow.»

Changes often do not have the desired effect, and tweaking one gene after another to get things working can be a very slow and painstaking process.

Still, Tucker describes his success as «a very slow creep.»

For onlookers, it has seemed like a long and very slow crawl.

These spots, taken by (assistant) professors, have very slow rotation.

If Osborne has got macroeconomic policy largely right (here) he's been very slow with microeconomic policy.

Continuing the strikes theme, London Mayor Boris Johnson says Britain «has been very slow» in tightening up strike laws, noting that other countries have ballot thresholds on strikes.

«It's very slow,» he said.

Huhne says he thinks it is «slightly unlikely» that Britain will now follow the path of the Japanese economy: very slow growth over a long time.

He said consumption taxes, like sales taxes, also have been growing at a very slow rate, another sign the economy is not strong.

«My experience working with that agency when I was in the federal government is that they are precise, they use scientific rigor, they're just very, very slow,» said Enck.

Great acting in the 30s story of Lennie And George BY GEORGE J. DACRE If Rockland County had an awards program like the Hollywood Oscars, Stavros Adamides as the very slow - witted Lennie and Scott Schneider as his fellow migrant and protector George, would certainly get nominations.

If Rockland County had an awards program like the Hollywood Oscars, Stavros Adamides as the very slow - witted Lennie and Scott Schneider as his fellow migrant and protector George, would certainly get nominations.

With the 2015 general election approaching, the expectation was one of very slow progress.

Katherine Smith, director of advocacy for the Rochester chapter of the League of Women Voters, says the registration process has been very slow this year.

«So it's a very slow lowering of the old span onto a barge that's waiting for it.

Cuomo is being very slow in his patronage appointments.

«You would only be allowed to proceed if the road was completely empty and safe to do so and you would obviously still have to stop at the traffic lights so you would be going at a very slow speed if you decided it was safe to move off.»

For example, where traffic is very slow and children can play out, then parents keep an eye outside for each other's children.

Upstate New York's biggest city is growing at a very slow rate.

It was mainly for this reason that the US was very slow in supporting regime change in Egypt.

In countries like the U.K. that have multiple major political parties, members of Parliament have to come up with a majority to be able to pass a bill and this itself is a very slow process.

And is very slow to respond, just as he was last year.

I was overwhelmed and tired and she was a very slow nurser.

At first, these cervical changes can be very slow.

Meddling with these may result in unforeseen and unintentional harm, since biological adaptation is a very slow process.

(Interestingly, Sephardic Jews also use onion skins — and sometimes coffee grounds — when they make golden brown Huevos Haminados, a very slow - cooked, hard boiled egg traditionally eaten on the Sabbath.

She had been a shy baby and toddler and very slow to warm up to new people.

«Use long drawn - out vowels, a voice one octave up and very slow, loving, pleasurable tones,» she says.

My baby was only 6 pounds, labor was very slow, but transition was fast and it.hurt.