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

Griffin Bell has had three chances to observe the snail's-pace process: as a federal appeals judge, a highly paid corporate attorney and as Jimmy Carter's Attorney General.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he walked he went like an express train; when he sauntered he relapsed into the slowest possible snail’s-pace, but he did not graduate the changes from one to the other.

From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)