be reduced to a crawl

All too often, the speed of Internet connections has been reduced to a crawl.

In the two vital weeks since, the British advance had been reduced to a crawl.

You know it's a bad swim if you're reduced to a crawl

Traffic on the promenade was reduced to a crawl while the emergency services attended the scene.

Traffic was reduced to a crawl as motorists slowed to see through the thick smoke.

Stay there long enough, sensing them, seeing how far they stood above you and you would have been reduced to a crawling worm.

Eventually it was reduced to a crawl.

No buses meant the morning rush was reduced to a crawl; a total shutdown on the Athens metro simply added to the problems.

When the fuel depletes, the speed of the tank is reduced to a crawl and a countdown begins from 10.

Large processing overheads are evident when a typically fast computer is reduced to a crawl by a complex visualisation.

Traffic was reduced to a crawl because police feared the animal might spark an accident as drivers swerved to avoid it.

Tractors blocked main routes into several major cities, including Toulouse in the south west, where rush-hour traffic was reduced to a crawl.

But service on all other lines between Brooklyn and Manhattan was reduced to a crawl in both boroughs as riders shouldered their way through huge crowds in an effort to get home.

Even so early in the morning, the bus is reduced to a crawl as it reaches central London, and it takes a depressingly long time to wind down to Victoria Bus station.

Like every other officer aboard the Enterprise, she was simultaneously outraged that the ship had been reduced to a crawl because of bureaucratic infighting and resigned to a future of such plodding.

They were standing shoulder to shoulder and overflowing into the street, complicating the efforts of the traffic wardens and impeding the flow of traffic until it was reduced to a crawl.

SH1-20 east-west corridor linking the southern and western motorways between East Tamaki and Onehunga- Various investigations from the 1960s have reconfirmed the need for the link, the latest showing that if not completed by 2020, traffic in the area will be reduced to a crawl throughout most working days.