Since it was first announced in December 1998, SDMI, a body composed of more than 180 companies, has developed slowly.

CNN: Digital music security initiative nearly ready

Trust me: this attraction developed slowly.

FORBES: My Surprising Lust For Buick

This deal may have developed as slowly as ketchup crawling down a long neck bottle (pre-squeeze container days).

FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

For the Furlows, the nightmare has developed much more slowly.

CNN: Sinkhole eating family out of house and home

It is also certain that as hedge funds proliferate, prudent fiduciary standards that have slowly developed and been refined over the past 40 years as pension assets have grown are being summarily discarded.

FORBES: Pensions Perilously Binging Upon Hedge Funds, Funds of Funds and Funds of Funds of Funds (March 20, 2007)

Another theory of the origin of modern humans, known as the multiregional hypothesis, holds that earlier forms of humans originated in Africa and then slowly developed their anatomically modern form in every area of the Old World.

WSJ: Study Points to a Single, Original Language for All Humans

In the long term, it might be that developed economies are going to grow more slowly as a result of the crisis.

BBC: Ageing populations and fewer workers strain pensions

The Laser Avenger, which is being developed by Boeing, is a vehicle-mounted system that can slowly heat explosive material from several hundred metres.

ECONOMIST: Anti-IED technologies

Initially the service was a minority interest, with just a handful of Ceefax-capable TVs in the UK, but it slowly started to gain popularity and the engineering team that developed the service was honoured with a Queen's Award for innovation.

BBC: Ceefax service closes down after 38 years on