Indeed, in one significant slippage, all narrative becomes fixed as ' ' plodding time-bound narrative.
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She has loyally plodded on, but she has dodged a number of questions.
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We are all used to seeing pictures on television of people in wellingtons plodding around two or three feet of water in their homes.
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Here again we are going down the wretched road which we have been plodding down in the last two or three years.
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The conference plodded on for years without much progress at first.
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When it cleared again, there she was, plodding along at exactly the same speed as she was before.
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Indeed, for many people plodding on towards retirement, possibly with a recurrent illness, is a real hardship.
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Yes, we keep doing something—most of what we do is useful—but we are just plodding on too slowly.
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They plodded on and spent thousands of pounds of public money and eventually lost.
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He is not thinking, questioning that sense of duty or examining the arguments, but plodding on with it in this way.
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In our fast moving world, to which transport is the key, we cannot have a planning infrastructure system that plods at the rate that it did for terminal 5.
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I hope that that kind of spirit, plodding and perhaps dull, will allow those of us who speak on this subject to acknowledge the possibility that we may be wrong.
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One brought up as a lawyer is a bit diffident about perjuring oneself—if one is not, then, of course, one does not mind—so one plods away.
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As noon passed at eight bells, the task force plodded towards the in-shore fire support areas at the sweepers five-knot speed.
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The more dance-oriented remix at album's end cutely emphasizes the oddball whistled hook but is otherwise an overlong, plodding mess.
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