snail's pace

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As Politico's Kyle Cheney pointed out, the snail's-pace proceedings makes it likely the actual trial itself won't start for weeks to come.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2024

The much-vaunted reopening of the border, at least at first, is just another example of the snail’s-pace return of tourism in a world still hobbled by the pandemic.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

New ones are rolling off production lines at a snail's-pace five per month.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their snail's-pace success has been milestoned by the kind of homely moralizing which moves clerics to write friendly letters.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would neither canter nor trot; it was with difficulty that she could be induced to walk, and then only at a snail's-pace; apparently she wanted to fly.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)