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We start slowly, shyly, and awkwardly just like most teenagers discovering the birds and the bees.
They turned slowly and gave the art nouveau building a suddenly contemporary appeal.
The geosphere impacts Earth's climate in a variety of ways. Typically, the geosphere reacts on geologic timescales, affecting climate slowly and over millions of years.
The bell for lunch rings, and I slowly pull myself out of my desk and drag my feet down the hall toward the cafeteria.
Each novella in this book unfolds slowly, ambling through expository digressions with confidence.
Spall plays him brilliantly as a grumbling, grunting beast of a man whose sensitivity and kindness emerges slowly.
And now, the show, the life, the camaraderie, is slowly but surely slipping away.
We've been slowly paying off our mortgage and building up equity in our house.
The cross slowly falls to the ground as we are told that religious freedom is under attack in America.
They envisioned an air war in which Britain's economic and technological superiority would slowly pulverize Germany.
Patrons eat their cannoli slowly and deliberately, dabbing the powdered sugar on their plates with licked fingers.
The Saab makes its way slowly through Bloomfield Hills, the tony Detroit suburb next to Birmingham.
And the Ukrainian army, slowly, uncertainly, but ineluctably, is closing in on this besieged ghost-town of a city.
During the first week, the main shopping street was jammed with cars filled with families driving slowly, aimlessly.
While debate rages over ever-increasing diagnosis rates of ADHD in children, a quiet minority has been slowly building.
The family was coming on. Only Morel remained unchanged, or rather, lapsed slowly.
Kleph moved slowly from the door and sank upon the chaise longue with a little sigh of content.
She remembered the times they had swum at Eleni beach totally naked, the moon and stars lighting the little waves as they rolled slowly to shore.
Time measures itself out in a series of diminishing peristaltic ticks, countdowning slowly towards the miracle of Ignition.
Amador rocked me slowly in that amniotic tranquility, as I started to get sleepy and could hear the unsettling rubatosis of my beating heart.
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Peat usually accumulates slowly at the rate of about a millimetre per year.
Each population's song changes slowly over a period of years without repeating.
After the plague, many farms lay idle while the population slowly increased.
I've been slowly familiarizing myself with the neighborhood.
As Noyes bade me adieu and rode off northward in his car I began to walk slowly toward the house.
He found her walking slowly up and down an allee of elms, through the leaves of which the bright September sunshine sifted down.
The wide access corridors passed slowly, the conduits and pipes like the circulatory system of some vast planetary behemoth.
He went on down the boulevard, bonjouring right and left, lifting his hat, bowing. He moved very slowly.
The fact that item 3 seems to slowly bubble up to its correct position gives the bubblesort algorithm its name.
He rode slowly towards them with a sulky expression on his face, chivvying the polo-ball with small strokes.
After the completion of the wall in 1842, North Bull Island slowly formed as sand built up behind it.
Plutonic or intrusive rocks result when magma cools and crystallizes slowly within the Earth's crust.
And yet, slowly but surely, the physical energies do seem to be taking their place in the clinology of an increasing number of disorders.
I was walking westward up the Strand, and though it was coldish I went slowly to get the pleasure of my cigar.
After a period of explosive activity near the ocean surface, the eruptions slowly die away.
The drain plug was then very slowly removed, and tiny pieces of floating wood were used to observe rotation.
It then flows very slowly into the deep abyssal plains of the Atlantic, always in a southerly direction.
Nevertheless, after the war they slowly became more common in civil aviation as well.
Due to vertical mixing at intermediate depths in the Southern Ocean, the salinity slowly rises as it moves northward.
We returned to the crossing, passing slowly through the high rusty stands of dock weeds and the fleshy beds of dense paspalum.
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In addition, positive ions slowly drift westward and negative ions drift eastward, giving rise to a ring current.
The combined flow of these gyres acts to advect the storm slowly poleward and westward.
Between the Cretaceous Normal and the present, the frequency has generally increased slowly.
The inland Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets retreated more slowly than did the coastal glaciers.
When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes.
Posterior molars erupt at the back of the row and slowly move forward to replace these like enamel crowns on a conveyor belt.
Tortoises are famous for moving slowly, in part because of their heavy, cumbersome shells, which restrict stride length.
They move very slowly and laboriously, dragging themselves forwards with their flippers.
The war slowly petered out after this battle, and Louis took the dispute over Normandy to Pope Callixtus II's council in Reims that October.
There are four recognised stages of mineralization associated with different conditions as the granite slowly cooled.
Hybrids such as the Ford Escape Hybrid are slowly being added to the taxicab fleet in Mexico City.
Through Albert's mediation, relations between mother and daughter slowly improved.
After the frame was properly attached to the hull it was slowly jacked up on four legs straddling the wreck site to pull the ship off the seabed.
The French pursued Brunswick slowly, capturing the strategic town of Minden which could potentially be used to stage an invasion of Hanover.
To bellow, males noticeably inflate as they raise the tail and head out of water, slowly waving the tail back and forth.
Where soil is not destroyed by erosion, erosion can in some cases prevent the formation of soil features that form slowly.
Road bikes tend to have a more upright shape and a shorter wheelbase, which make the bike more mobile but harder to ride slowly.
In the subsequent years, ITV Meridian's workforce has been condensed slowly with its operations considerably downgraded.
The cycle is imagined to run so slowly that at each point of the cycle the working body is in a state of thermodynamic equilibrium.
It slowly rebuilt its relationships, seeking alliances with Russia and Britain to control the growing power of Germany.
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Romanian troops participated in the occupation of Iraq, reaching a peak of 730 soldiers before being slowly drawn down to 350 soldiers.
After that, population started to decline slowly as inhabitants began to move to nearby suburbs of Rome.
Book production was completed slowly by hand, and took place mainly in large monastic libraries.
During Charles the Bold's many wars, which were a major economic burden for the Burgundian Netherlands, tensions slowly increased.
However, in the 13th century they began to slowly lose their rights and became less equal in the eyes of the law.
In contrast, boys accelerate more slowly but continue to grow for about six years after the first visible pubertal changes.
This is because single genes will coalesce more slowly than tracing of conventional human genealogy via both parents.
As dawn came I watched things slowly poke out of the black. Each thing was a surprise.
Other sports in Thailand are slowly growing as the country develops its sporting infrastructure.
As these innovations become more accepted and standardized, they are slowly adopted in more formal rituals.
The location of the Earth's magnetic poles slowly change with time, which is referred to as geomagnetic secular variation.
They began moving into Sierra Leone slowly and peacefully in the eighteenth century.
Cuba developed slowly and, unlike the plantation islands of the Caribbean, had a diversified agriculture.
Initially, the faith was restricted to Ternate's small ruling family, and spread only slowly to the rest of the population.
With the enlargement of the European Union, the balance between French and German is slowly changing.
The elements of modern diplomacy slowly spread to Eastern Europe and Russia, arriving by the early 18th century.
Scientific output has risen slowly from 93 articles in 2005 and remains modest.
Skin lesions matured slowly and by the seventh or eighth day they were flat and appeared to be buried in the skin.
This faction had slowly been gaining prominence during the 1640s until they had forced Frederick Henry to support the peace.
Centuries after, a field of crosses was slowly added to the azure background, and latterly also a silver host.
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Over the next fourteen years, however, the Russians slowly conquered the Khanate.
Lake Baikal is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the Earth's crust is slowly pulling apart.
Many new cities were established in this period and Chinese culture was slowly shaped.
Sheep are generally too large and reproduce too slowly to make ideal research subjects, and thus are not a common model organism.
The sale of European slaves by Europeans slowly ended as the Slavic and Baltic ethnic groups Christianized by the Late Middle Ages.
European colonial rule and diplomatic pressure slowly put an end to the trade, and eventually to the practice of slavery itself.
This allows the peanuts to dry slowly to a little less than a third of their original moisture level over a period of three to four days.
They introduced a series of modifications intended to slowly centralise the bureaucratic, tax, religious, educational, and trade structure.
Germanic strong verbs, mostly deriving directly from PIE, are slowly being supplanted by or transformed into weak verbs.
From the 1970s onwards, attitudes towards Received Pronunciation have been changing slowly.
It was slowly filled in with mud, and fossils of fish and crocodiles have been found there.
The population grew slowly until the opening in 1825 of the Erie Canal connecting the Great Lakes and the Hudson River and New York City.
The terrified sailors would have begun to depart quicklier than they did, had not fear itself made them move slowly.
The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
Tradition changes slowly, with changes from one generation to the next being seen as significant.
Jury trials have been very slowly introduced in Spain and have often produced less than desirable results.
Packet boats pulled by horses on tow paths traveled slowly over the canal carrying passengers and freight.
They proceeded slowly towards Delhi and fought, killed, and hanged numerous Indians along the way.
You squeeze these raisinate berries and the rich, concentrated juice slowly ferments.
For still water the velocity head is zero, and to a good approximation it is negligible for slowly moving water, and can be ignored.
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Because nitrogen builds up slowly over time in pasture, ploughing up pasture and planting grains resulted in high yields for a few years.
The great wheel is an example of this type, where the fibre is held in the left hand and the wheel slowly turned with the right.
The slowly turning doffer removes the fibres from the swift and carries them to the fly comb where they are stripped from the doffer.
Bolton specialised in fine count cotton, and its mules ran more slowly to put in the extra twist.
It was also slowly Christianized by the monks of the nearby Abbey of Stavelot.
Pollards tend to grow slowly, with narrower growth rings in the years immediately after cutting.
Some species begin to form heartwood very early in life, so having only a thin layer of live sapwood, while in others the change comes slowly.
In general it may be stated that such woods of medium growth afford stronger material than when very rapidly or very slowly grown.
The reaction can occur relatively slowly, as in the case of rust, or more quickly, as in the case of fire.
During the 1950s, numerical control moved slowly from the laboratory into commercial service.
Since the acid may react with water vigorously, such acidic drain openers should be added slowly into the pipe to be cleaned.
The material slowly turns to liquid and recirculates, equalizing laptop temperature and acting as an insulation.
The different constituents slowly crystallise, and the interlocking of their crystals gives cement its strength.
If left to stand following agitation a lime putty will slowly revert from a thick liquid to a putty state.
The city remained an important port until the middle of the Ming dynasty era, when its harbor slowly silted up.
By convention, irregular military is understood in contrast to regular armies which grew slowly from personal bodyguards or elite militia.
Near the end of the story, it is revealed that Wood survived the accident and is recovering slowly in a hospital.
Mountains erode slowly through the action of rivers, weather conditions, and glaciers.
If forecast storm water will overfill the reservoir, water is slowly let out of the reservoir prior to, and during, the storm.
Rivers with a course that drops in altitude very slowly will have slower water flow and lower force.
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On top of this is a combination of slowly permeable and well drained fine loam over clay.
Occasionally visible from the valley bottom road are the slowly fading fellside scars of the 18th and 19th century lead mining industry.
In 1821 he became the city surveyor for St Augustine, Florida, which was slowly being developed.
The LNWR was progressing slowly through the Lake District, and there was pressure for a direct line from London to York.
With a booming fishing industry, the area grew slowly and hamlets became part of the parish of North Meols.
Hence, as sphagnum moss grows, it can slowly spread into drier conditions, forming larger mires, both raised bogs and blanket bogs.
Rotisserie broilers cook meats and other foods by turning them slowly in front of electric or gas-powered heating elements.
The beam initially diffracts linearly and self-focusses slowly into a soliton.
Abu Hassar began to slowly nod and his gaze moved from abed to me.
The agitation, thus deprived of its chief hope, might very well have been expected to simmer down, to die away slowly.
They then build a giant snowdog together and the ending builds up gradually as the snowdog slowly melts over the weeks.
He blew out the lamp, and closed the stairfoot door after him, as he slowly mounted the stairs behind her.
Horse skin smells good. Lay your cheek against his neck and have a good cuddle. Now straighten up slowly again, and sit loosely.
Though the sugar palm tree grows slowly, it is resistant to variable weather and has a life-span of up to 80-90 years.
The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.
I don't think you should stop seeing her. Just take things slowly, that's all.
As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
Helped by massive tax increases piled on to the electorate by the Tories in their first post-election budget, we slowly began to win the battle.
She stared at the unadded column and the unpaid bills, then slowly closed the book.
Feeling stuffed to near unbearability, the pair slowly made their way back towards home.
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The old under-powered van ground its way very noisily and rather slowly up the long steep hill out of the town.
Comparing equivalent total absorbed doses, those delivered more slowly appear more dangerous.
Enhanced thermic effect of food, postprandial NEFA suppression and raised adiponectin in obese women who eat slowly.
The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.
The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds.
Although ground has at long last been broken on the Northridge Pool, government in Los Angeles moves slowly.
Think of this as removing a Band-Aid really, really, really slowly.
Highsmith's protagonist is a c Walm character whose psychotic tendencies slowly reveal themselves.
However, people within the community opined that 'Ali Ai Ligang' is slowly disappearing from their society due to impact of westernisation.
Add beaten eggs painstakingly slowly to aerate, stabilise and prevent curdling or splitting.
Witnesses described hearing a loud noise and a whoosh of air before seeing the plane slowly crash land.
It's mostly about earthy, creamy, slowly cooked white beans with accents of pancetta, roasted winter squash, and rosemary.
It ran slowly, so as a test I used a much smaller word list sold to me by Ted Clarke.
This slowly creates wetter conditions that allow the area of wetland to expand.
A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.
Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid.
Those spotted are usually taught so slowly that they grow disinterested and quit.
My skin, not unlike a guava or a star, slowly enmeshing its rays into the edenics of eternity.
If you make the animal angry, walk slowly backwards and avoid making eye contact.
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He could see it gilding the ridges westward and slowly burning the fogfall that lay over Topanga Park.
The crowd slowly dissolved as news from doctors and Service upstairs failed to forthcome.
Now, slowly and not to obviously, you cross your legs and give them a quick glance at your little fur-burger.
Moving very slowly, taking extremely ginger steps, the woman felt beads of sweat dripping down from her body.
Wes and his godbrother, Red, moved toward the cheese bus as it slowly rolled to a stop in Dundee Village.
Over the centuries the Royal Navy slowly grew to be the most powerful in the world.
Together these three tectonic forces are slowly developing into a new subduction system in the eastern Atlantic Basin.
London then grew slowly until about 950, after which activity increased dramatically.
I usually start running slowly for a warm-up and then hit my stride a few minutes into the run.
The Abbasids flourished for two centuries but slowly went into decline with the rise to power of the Turkish army they had created, the Mamluks.
Rotting bottles leak Lost and other substances, thus slowly poisoning a substantial part of the Baltic Sea.
He orders the troops to hide behind branches and slowly advance towards the castle.
At length you slowly raise, pulling hand over hand, some horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air.
Drainage systems evolved slowly, and began primarily as a means to drain marshes and storm runoff.
Constantine progressed slowly along the Via Flaminia, allowing the weakness of Maxentius to draw his regime further into turmoil.
As Rome started to expand, it slowly embraced the Greek culture, causing an influx of medicinal information in Roman society.
This would be unlikely with a very rapid imprinter such as a duckling or a chick, but mammals tend to become socialized more slowly.
The feudal system was slowly disintegrating throughout the hundred years war.
French slowly took over Latin's status as the lingua franca of learned circles.
After that, the Western Allies slowly pushed into Germany, but failed to cross the Ruhr river in a large offensive.
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While the rebellion was slowly being defeated, it was equally clear that colonial rule from Britain was no longer sustainable.
England however was slowly conquered around the turn of the first millennium AD, and eventually became a feudal possession of Denmark.
A similar situation existed in the Principality of Wales, which was slowly being annexed into the Kingdom of England by a series of laws.
Since that time, the federal government has slowly devolved legislative jurisdiction to the territories.
Eventually these councils have slowly evolved into the modern Parliamentary system.
But if he succeeds in seizing the klipdachs before it has time to leap away, he carries it to a rocky ledge, and slowly tears it to pieces.
The boy dragged on his rope reins, stirred a bit painfully in his seat, and drove slowly and knockingly away.
Louisiana slowly developed, over millions of years, from water into land, and from north to south.
It was there that the kyai finally pulled down the cloth, slowly, bracing himself for the shock.
Hurriedly taking off her bodice, she crouched at the boiler while the water ran slowly into her lading-can.
Sea levels had dropped coincident with the ice age, but slowly recovered over the course of the Silurian and Devonian.
The Thames is a clear end point to the south west, whereas north east of Luton the hills decline slowly in prominence.
The axis of rotation varies slowly over time and the values given here are those for the current epoch.
These modern central banking functions evolved slowly through the 18th and 19th centuries.
In the 1950s new psychiatric drugs, notably the antipsychotic chlorpromazine, were designed in laboratories and slowly came into preferred use.
Early designs also respond very slowly to power changes, a fact that killed many experienced pilots when they attempted the transition to jets.
You are supported, so you can just let go and relax. Inhale and slowly exhale.
Science also slowly came to realise the difference between perception of colour and mathematisable optics.
As he slowly lost the ability to write, he developed compensatory visual methods, including seeing equations in terms of geometry.
In conjunction, the HTML specification has slowly reined in the presentational elements.
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The belt can be pulled from the reel only slowly and gradually, as when the occupant extends the belt to fasten it.
The two French girls held the gilt-lipped vases of milk and slowly poured them into the alabaster bath.
This would, for example, cause organisms to slowly become all the same height.
Additionally, countries such as India have been slowly undergoing social change, expanding the size of the urban working class.
Buddhism may have spread only slowly in India until the time of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, who was a public supporter of the religion.
This right remained a bone of contention between the church authorities and universities that were slowly distancing themselves from the Church.
His crew hoisted the sails and the Adventure manoeuvred to point her starboard guns toward Maynard's sloops, which were slowly closing the gap.
For example, Pleurotus nebrodensis grows slowly, and because of this combined with human collection, it is now critically endangered.
In Lancashire before industrialisation, families would work at home spinning thread while scrags of mutton stewed slowly over a low fire.
However, novels slowly divested themselves of the Arthurian and chivalric trappings and came to centre on more ordinary or picaresque figures.
To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic.
During the recording sessions of the album, a rift between Jagger and Richards was slowly beginning to form.
The book, according to music journalist Dave Thompson, slowly created an audience for gothic rock by word of mouth.
Larger horses mature more slowly and have more stress on their legs and feet, predisposing them to lameness.
Operations restarted slowly, in an atmosphere poisoned by plotting and political conspiracy.
Neoclassicism from France was slowly adopted by native Danish architects who increasingly participated in defining architectural style.
Since that date, Dutch legislation is projected to slowly replace Netherlands Antilles laws.
In keeping with the Schlieffen Plan, the Germans withdrew slowly while inflicting severe losses upon the French.
Europe's economies were recovering slowly, as unemployment and food shortages led to strikes and unrest in several nations.
Ireland was formed in two distinct parts and slowly joined together, uniting about 440 million years ago.
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The marine ecosystem is thought to be vulnerable because its low temperatures mean that it can repair itself only very slowly.
The power of Parliament grew slowly, fluctuating as the strength of the monarchy grew or declined.
While genotypes can slowly change by random genetic drift, natural selection remains the primary explanation for adaptive evolution.
The sick man lay unutterably weak and spent, kept alive by morphia and by drinks, which he sipped slowly.
To a distant observer, clocks near a black hole appear to tick more slowly than those further away from the black hole.
This was a notion that developed slowly and came to be a preoccupation of scientists, theologians, and the public.
Over time differences between the Hasidim and their opponents have slowly diminished and both groups are now considered part of Haredi Judaism.
Godwin and Wollstonecraft's unique courtship began slowly, but it eventually became a passionate love affair.
Wittgenstein told Ryle he would die slowly if left at Cambridge, and he would rather die quickly.
Efforts are now being made to remove these cordgrass species, as the damages are slowly being recognised.
All lakes are temporary over geologic time scales, as they will slowly fill in with sediments or spill out of the basin containing them.
As more countries have continued to become more developed, the interests of the world have slowly started to shift.
In some cases, bureaucracies act slowly or inefficiently, or fail to apply policies as they were originally intended.
A newly promoted junior Centurion would be assigned to the sixth century of the tenth cohort and slowly progressed through the ranks from there.
Beneath the surface, two plates of the Earth's crust were slowly colliding, forcing the Cocos Plate to slide under the Caribbean Plate.
Study of the Classics and humanities slowly returned in the fourteenth century, which led to increased study of both Ancient Greek and Latin.
When the magma solidifies within the earth's crust, it cools slowly forming coarse textured rocks, such as granite, gabbro, or diorite.
Wild boar can thrive in captivity, though piglets grow slowly and poorly without their mothers.
Gold coins salvaged from shipwrecks retain almost all of their original appearance, but silver coins slowly corrode.
Banknote collecting, or Notaphily, is a slowly growing area of numismatics.
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Although generally not as widespread as coin and stamp collecting, the hobby is slowly expanding.
They are now slowly being taken out of service, with only two of the original 8 remaining in the fleet.
Following the Norman invasion, the administrative machinery of government extended only slowly into northern England.
Glaciers slowly deform and flow due to stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features.
Friction makes the ice at the bottom of the glacier move more slowly than ice at the top.
A zinc disc attached to a ship's iron rudder will slowly corrode while the rudder stays intact.
Henry II retreated and made his way back to his main army, by now slowly advancing towards Rhuddlan.
The list of boroughs which had the right to elect a member grew slowly over the centuries as monarchs granted charters to more English towns.
Each time, once inflation fell and interest rates were lowered, unemployment slowly fell.
According to Keynesian economists, a combination of deficit spending and the lowering of interest rates would slowly lead to economic recovery.
Now slowly lower the imaginary sea level and an imaginary island appears beneath your feet.
There, it is capable of moving slowly by means of attaching and detaching byssal threads to attain a better life position.
In the reign of Henry VIII surnames became hereditary amongst the Welsh gentry, and the custom spread slowly amongst commoners.
With time her mother slowly began to change from being an active women to someone who retreated with illness.
The village grew very slowly with the development of the local lead mining industry.
The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated.
Flickering of the image can be partially solved using a long persistence phosphor coating on the CRT, so that successive images fade slowly.
The plays originated as simple tropes, verbal embellishments of liturgical texts, and slowly became more elaborate.
Tolkien warned them that he wrote quite slowly, and responded with several stories he had already developed.
When cooled slowly correlated proton tunneling occurs below 20 K giving rise to macroscopic quantum phenomena.
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Metallic technetium slowly tarnishes in moist air and, in powder form, burns in oxygen.
The endoscope is advanced to its most orad limit and then slowly withdrawn so that the mucosa can be thoroughly examined.
The country remained a battlefield for the rest of the war, as the Allies were slowly moving up from the south.
Pine and spruce are dominant, but the forests are slowly but surely more sparsely grown the farther towards the north it gets.
The art form, often referred to as Scanian Marriage Weavings, flourished from 1750 for a period of 100 years, after which it slowly vanished.
From 1204, the Republic of Venice controlled Corfu and slowly all the Ionian islands fell under Venetian rule.
When larger scale battles ensued, Viking crews would rope together all nearby ships and slowly proceed towards the enemy targets.
An ambitious building program was initiated, but realised very slowly because of economic constraints.
The impact of waves and currents, carrying away sediments, is slowly changing the layout of the islands.
When it was drained, the oxygen of the air reached it, since then the peat has been slowly oxidizing.
Internal waves move very slowly because the density difference between the joined media is very small.
Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, the city slowly declined and was abandoned in the Byzantine era.
The weight of the ice sheet depresses the underlying land, and when the ice melts away the land slowly rebounds.
Since the nest is very close to the water, rising water may induce the birds to slowly move the nest upwards, over a meter.
This however means less room around the breathing hole as the ice slowly closes the gap.
The redirection of investment to the Danubian forts saw the towns along the Amber Road growing slowly, though yet retaining their prosperity.
Instead, he proceeded with a plan to expand the navy slowly, justifying enlargement step by step.
Loading starts slowly at a low pressure to ensure that equipment is working correctly and that connections are secure.
Rome encouraged the Franks to slowly replace the Gallican Rite with the Roman rite.
Some of the traditional ties between parts of the empire such as Normandy and England were slowly dissolving over time.
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Revenue from the royal demesne was inflexible and had been diminishing slowly since the Norman conquest.
From the time of his coronation, all real power was transferred to Philip, as his father slowly descended into senility.
The war slowly turned against Philip over the course of the next three years.
Ships slowly regain their magnetic field as they travel through the Earth's magnetic field, so the process has to be repeated every six months.
Each run covers between one and two hundred meters, and the ships must move slowly in a straight line, making them vulnerable to enemy fire.
Until 1860, Deauville went from the reign of one mayor to another and slowly became famous as horse territory and for cultivating sainfoin.
Matings occurring outside this period typically occur in sows which either failed to mate earlier in the year or matured slowly.
Most owls share an innate ability to fly almost silently and also more slowly in comparison to other birds of prey.
The common toad usually moves by walking rather slowly or in short shuffling jumps involving all four legs.
Earth's atmosphere has no definite boundary, slowly becoming thinner and fading into outer space.
While all this was happening, Gondwana drifted slowly towards the South Pole.
To the west, the bottom rises first slowly, but then rapidly toward the wide Greenland coastal strip.
The magma inside the pillow cools slowly, so is slightly coarser grained than the skin, but nevertheless it is still classified as fine grained.
Consequently, this area is a rare case of a passive margin slowly being transformed into an active margin.
I crystallized the copper sulphate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.
During the next few centuries Novgorodians engaged in fur trading with the local population and collected tribute from Yugra and Great Perm, slowly expanding southwards.
Everything seemed to be moving extremely slowly, and I realized that I was still velocitized. I was still prepared to receive the world at highway speed.
Meanwhile the brig had altered her tack, and was moving slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest eye could not have discerned her top-sails above the horizon.
Biological productivity of the deglaciated landscape was gained slowly.
Suddenly, and at the same moment, the ebullition ceased, and the compound changed to a dark purple, which faded again more slowly to a watery green.

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