Example sentences of "slowly but " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 2 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 3 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 4 | His canny bank manager approach probably means he will hasten slowly but prepare for some stand-offs with his civil servants and possibly with the chairman of British Rail too . |
| 5 | Not only was the CEGB pursuing it too slowly but it had underestimated the potential , he argued . |
| 6 | His acting career went slowly but definitely downhill . |
| 7 | Again , Thompson and Spencer suggest that intense stimuli habituate only slowly but there is some evidence that they might acquire latent inhibition especially readily , ( Crowell and Anderson 1972 ; Lantz 1976 ; Schnur and Lubow 1976 ) . |
| 8 | However , Mr Lewis 's engagingly informal manner , and his statement at dinner that the United States ‘ would always stand on the side of justice and did n't mind admitting mistakes had been made at Versailles ’ seemed to do much to win the confidence of his lordship 's ‘ home team' ; as dinner progressed , the conversation had slowly but surely turned from topics such as the merits of Mr Lewis 's native Pennsylvania back to the conference ahead , and by the time the gentlemen were lighting their cigars , some of the speculations being offered appeared to be as intimate as those exchanged prior to Mr Lewis 's arrival . |
| 9 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 10 | Well , by the 9th we still held our two-stroke lead , and slowly but surely the galleries got bigger and bigger . |
| 11 | As the moving convection cell carries basaltic crust away from the ridge , slowly but continuously , the magnetic reversals taking place every few hundred thousand years or so leave their imprints on the newly-formed rocks emerging from the ridge ; as every reversal occurs , so it is recorded in the formation of reversely-magnetized strips on each side of the ridge . |
| 12 | The rate of increase of sheep numbers in Powys in recent years is accelerating slowly but the rate of increase in cattle numbers in Cantal is decelerating . |
| 13 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |
| 14 | Chapman , said the Yorkshire Post , was ‘ slowly but surely evolving a set of players from whom much may be expected in the future ’ . |
| 15 | Either the mental strategy worked or the weather became slowly but imperceptibly better , for I was not air-sick and have usually been a ‘ good sailor ’ by air or by sea ever since . |
| 16 | The Pentagon believes that the Russians are slowly but surely catching up with Western technology , often with Western know-how . |
| 17 | But the others were moving , slowly but surely . |
| 18 | Andrew undresses him slowly , taking each bit of clothing off slowly but then flinging them into a corner of the room ( 'so you wo n't find them in the morning' ) . |
| 19 | French and Jewish ‘ influence ’ went hand in hand for many Germans and allowed Völkisch opinion on the matter to flourish : slowly but surely the word Völk came to mean not simply ‘ people ’ , but also ‘ populist ’ , and to imply a sense of common identity and of racial superiority over those peoples who needed the French to emancipate them . |
| 20 | Its real achievement lay in slowly but surely creating and manipulating opinion to create a border mentality where one had not existed in such crude form before . |
| 21 | Yet slowly but surely they came back . |
| 22 | St Luke 's spent £40,000 on the building , gave away one of its full-time staff and several of its members and the new church began , slowly but surely , to grow . |
| 23 | As regards the growth of the church , about a year after beginning to meet , slowly but surely we began to grow . |
| 24 | PANDA is gaining support slowly but surely . |
| 25 | I think that if you concentrate on really short term goals and practise things that are maybe a week away instead of a month away then you 'll gradually , slowly but surely , definitely improve . |
| 26 | With an aircraft , the nose can be raised and the angle of attack increased until the model is flying very slowly but not quite stalling . |
| 27 | The Italian Federation is fighting a rearguard battle against this trend , which is slowly but surely killing Italian rugby . |
| 28 | Gavin Baldwin started slowly but grew in stature as the tour progressed and rather moved past Martin Hynes as the top loose-head by the end of the tour . |
| 29 | Solid , rock like , you do n't move easily and you take things slowly but surely . |
| 30 | And then , slowly but surely , it all came back to me . |