Martin Guptill departed for two when he was superbly caught by Umar Akmal sliding forward after racing in from long-on and slow left-armer Abdur Rehman claimed his second victim when McCullum holed out in the deep for 33.

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The BP Oil Spill was unique in that it was a man-made disaster, played out in slow motion over months and televised from the bottom of the sea.

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The comments follow longstanding concerns, expressed at national and European level, over the slow roll-out and take up of broadband internet services in Britain.

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Many criticised it for being slow to do deals in the buy-out boom and for sitting on too much cash.

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The many writs, threats, injunctions and court cases have become embroiled in slow-grinding legal machinations, been thrown out on technical grounds or failed because foreign firms had not properly registered their designs.

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Jeter was a split second slow out of the blocks and nearly caught Fraser-Pryce in the final meters, but the Jamaican leaned across the finish for the victory.

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And this was a slow phase-out that was supposed to take place over two years and not concern consumers in emerging markets all that much.

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Ads are way more intrusive in the digital magazines because page turns are often slow and cumbersome and you have to zoom in and out to see the content smoothly enough which often also involves a too-slow redraw.

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Gold is trading at an all time high Monday morning in Asian markets and oil is lower on concerns that the world economy is about to slow down near-term as Europe works out its sovereign debt issues, and the US battles a slow, jobless recovery.

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