Example sentences of "slowly over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , in fact , a supercooled liquid , and if heated , it would soften slowly over a broad temperature range , rather than melting abruptly . |
| 2 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 3 | If on the other hand , a stress is applied slowly over a longer period the material flows like a viscous liquid so that the spherical shape is soon lost if left to stand for some time . |
| 4 | But the power of this strong life-giving vibration is said to wane slowly over a 4.32 million year period , until man even forgets that he is really alive and conscious . |
| 5 | They widened still further as his eyes ran slowly over the visible curves of her body . |
| 6 | One day , with me clinging to you — what rapture ! — on the pillion , we made a trip to Zamora , a small medieval city to the north of Salamanca. ft was one of those heavenly , crisp autumn days , all sunny chills and skies of broken clouds whose grotesque shadows went moving slowly over the bare brown earth of the fields and hills . |
| 7 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 8 | She ran her fingers slowly over the stubbly , woven texture of a wall-hanging , part woven , part collage . |
| 9 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 10 | I do n't think he should really be telling me all this , but he is demob happy and there is something of the anonymity of the confessional in this dimly lit train compartment , lurching slowly over the snowy plateau of the Kola Peninsula . |
| 11 | Her gaze moved slowly over the dazzling white decks , and into the dark well of the cabin . |
| 12 | President Mary Robinson of the Irish Republic , who visited Somalia on Oct. 3 and 4 , said at an emotional press conference in Nairobi on Oct. 5 that the UN and the European Communities were " offending justice " by acting slowly over the Somali crisis . |
| 13 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 14 | Making sure to appear casual , he carefully watched the men in dinner jackets and the women in full-length décolleté dresses move slowly over the red carpet towards the restaurant at the rear , or climb the staircase to the gaming rooms . |
| 15 | We consider that investment in quality is as important as improving the working environment , which we 've obviously been er doing slowly over the last three years . |
| 16 | At the meeting , it was decided that County , the underwriters Dillon Read and Phillips & Drew would take some of the remaining shares and then sell them slowly over the next few weeks , a move which had been discussed with County 's lawyers beforehand . |