snail's pace

Disaster was averted thanks to a defense that stiffened and an offense that started moving the ball at something beyond a snail’s pace.

The railway line, China’s flagship infrastructure project in the region, has been snarled by regulatory and other issues and progressed at a snail’s pace during five years of work.

Five days after beating Arizona on its home court, USC was outplaying the Wildcats again with sticky defense and a snail’s pace that favored the Trojans.

That means the economy is not in a technical recession, though it’s expanding at a snail’s pace.

"That's why it's so frustrating that efforts to tackle sexism in the city are moving at a snail's pace," she added.