slower pace
collocation in Englishmeaningsofslowandpace
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slow
adjective
uk/sləʊ/us/sloʊ/
moving, happening, or doing something without ...
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pace
noun
uk/peɪs/us/peɪs/
the speed at which someone or something moves, or with which something happens ...
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(Definition ofslowandpacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofslower pace
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Apparently, a non-oscillating boundary form is flattened out a t a muchslowerpacethan one which oscillates throughout.
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After 1968, there was renewed house building in the private sector although at aslowerpaceand again mainly for the middle classes.
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Indeed, it made the population grow at a faster, not at aslowerpace.
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The demographic transplantation probably would have occurred even with a more just land-tenure system, although perhaps at aslowerpace.
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At the same time, it is possible to argue that the written language is changing at aslowerpacethan ever before (with the exception of technical neologisms).
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Given thisslowerpaceof liability accumulation, sponsors generally face a lower contribution burden and the government loses less tax revenue in the first place under current law.
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Capital concentration in the financial sector began in 1990, continued at aslowerpaceduring the 1990s and accelerated during the recent economic crisis of 2002-2003.
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We must not just allow deeper integration on the part of some countries; we must allow others to integrate at aslowerpace.
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I think it would have been much better—although it is easy to make mistakes in these matters —to have proceeded at a somewhatslowerpace.
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Although it happened at aslowerpace, it was still for lack of firm preventive measures.
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Moreover, at theslowerpaceset the lorry driver had much more work to do.
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Economic growth has continued, although at aslowerpacethan recently, as domestic demand growth has slowed.
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The introduction of the important reforms relating to the national curriculum should be introduced at aslowerpace.
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But the fact of that lower fitness is taken into consideration: work in these places proceeds at aslowerpace.
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Indeed, we believed that there was an alternative, which still entailed adopting the euro, but adopting it at aslowerpace.
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The message is that we are giving time for a wider understanding and aslowerpacein certain circumstances.
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I shall speak at aslowerpaceif that will be helpful.
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I have tried to explain to the home why we need to move at aslowerpaceand have an evolutionary approach.
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