slow off the mark

As a result, the Series 2 was slow off the mark but had a better top speed.

His clean coal program has been slow off the mark.

"No one will ever accuse you of being slow off the mark," he said.

The Police Department was slow off the mark with its investigation.

"I've noticed the captain's been a little slow off the mark lately as well."

Diesels are condemned by some for being too slow off the mark.

She said he's moody and temperamental, kind of slow off the mark.

Perhaps they were just a little slow off the mark, and he'd misread their intentions all along.

So we wind up being slow off the mark."

"Shows we were slow off the mark," Hill said.

But the education commissioner is accurate when he describes the city's recruitment effort as slow off the mark.

"Indeed, Ivan, clearly this entire episode is all your fault, for being so slow off the mark."

Worried about not appearing a coward before his king and so many warriors, the young man was a little slow off the mark.

We were first at the landing, but that won't count for much if we're slow off the mark!"

As so often happens, however, Mr. Bush is slow off the mark.

Senator Burns was slow off the mark, apparently overconfident.

Typically, he was slow off the mark.

Ms. Shu said there were various reasons for consumer goods manufacturers and others to be slow off the mark.

Yet when Los Angeles beckoned four years later, he was too slow off the mark.

"You were too slow off the mark.

Pledging to address concerns over immigration, he said Labour had been slow off the mark on many issues that mattered to people.

His Millennium Challenge project has been slow off the mark, to say the least, signing contracts with only a handful of countries.

With regard to Europe - or, more precisely, European political cooperation - as ever, it has been somewhat slow off the mark.

Many credit facilities at this time were taking a similar form of finance, but Takugin had been somewhat slow off the mark.

Ice Hockey was much slower off the mark after the First World War.