Caroline Bowker, of the NASUWT, said the problems went beyond slow internet speeds.

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Look at Germany, Mr Schauble would say: we went through our own period of slow growth and painful reform in the early years of this century.

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For a few years afterward, his handicap went down, but then began a long, slow climb.

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They did not build on their dominant scrum and England went back to old habits where the ball was slow.

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In the end, the US band were a good call and songs from the forthcoming album went down well alongside old favourites like PDA, Slow Hands and Evil.

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The work went on through September, and Obie slaved over the corroded wiring and the slow-running plumbing.

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With often-superfluous new product flowing in, and slow-moving items being pulled too soon, the only profit went to the shipping company, moving tens of thousands of CDs to and from Tower outlets.

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The study exposed 40 healthy participants with a mean age of 27 to two minutes of slow split-belt walking, then to a 15-minute period in which one belt went much faster than the other so that participants began to drag one foot, simulating a limp.

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The consortium of western oil majors went into the project knowing this, but, according to Neff, they didn't realize just how slow and costly the project would become.

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