Sometimes progress seemed lightning fast, but most of the time the work got done at a glacially slow pace.

A motion control rig can be set to dolly or pan the camera at a glacially slow pace.

The aging of the savings-prone population is a "glacially slow" and highly predictable process.

But the service was glacially slow and just about as chilly.

Brooks says: "Progress has been glacially slow in some areas of the business and this is not good enough.

She turned her head and found it moved glacially slow.

Physical evolution is glacially slow; we humans share 98.4 percent of our genetic material with chimpanzees.

However, the natural law governing committees soon took hold and progress was glacially slow.

This used to be a glacially slow process, but it has accelerated considerably over the past few years.

To be sure, some of the favorable trends may prove glacially slow, or shy on substance.