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snail's pace
noun
- an extremely slow rate:
The work progresses at a snail's pace.
snail's pace
noun
- a very slow or sluggish speed or rate
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Origin of snail's pace1
Idioms and Phrases
A very slow pace, as in They're making progress with testing the new vaccine, but at a snail's pace . [c. 1400]Example Sentences
In South Africa, Africa's biggest economy and a major carbon emitter, a $8.5bn foreign-aided transition project from the coal-sector was already moving at a snail's pace, and now there are fears that it may get derailed further.
Bob Blackman MP, who drafted the Act, criticised the "snail's pace" in enforcing it, adding action was needed urgently as the sector is a "ticking time bomb".
And parents of children who died after exposure to illegal or harmful content have previously criticised Ofcom for moving at a "snail's pace".
Disaster was averted thanks to a defense that stiffened and an offense that started moving the ball at something beyond a snail’s pace.
The railway line, China’s flagship infrastructure project in the region, has been snarled by regulatory and other issues and progressed at a snail’s pace during five years of work.
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