I imagine that diplomatic complaints and discussions will proceed at their usual snail-like pace.

It hove into sight as a puff of dust at the end of the road and gradually, with snail-like pace, came near enough to be identified.

It did not take more than a few moments before our previously snail-like pace had increased to an alarming extent.

Fed up with the snail-like pace, the market yesterday began to entertain the possibility that the group itself may now be on the block.

While the snail-like pace of Mr. Andreotti's case is typical for Italy, he is no ordinary defendant.

Yet at the snail-like pace required to create his brand of clay animation, it could be four years before we see a single frame.

It was not easy for him to go at such a snail-like pace, with midnight so near.

Because of the snail-like pace of the National Basketball Association's playoff schedule this season, Hardaway will have some extra time to heal.

Parliament's snail-like pace is in stark contrast to the rapid and irreversible progress of the information society.

Many of them remain bogged down in debt, growing at a snail-like pace.