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The process of getting back into shape has been painfully slow.

Efforts to train the national army have been painfully slow.

It also meant that research into the disease was painfully slow.

The program, in the way of all computer inventory programs, was painfully slow.

After a painfully slow half hour, the shower stopped and I made a plan.

As they got closer to the front the advance was painfully slow.

We are making progress in understanding our world; it's just painfully slow.

Then we sat down to wait for developments, which were painfully slow in coming.

"But they show we are on a painfully slow recovery track."

Even so, service can be painfully slow during peak hours and there is often a long wait to get inside.

But change on a grand scale in a country of nearly 290 million is usually painfully slow.

They were constantly coming closer, yet their approach seemed painfully slow.

Telling it all with words would be painfully slow and clumsy.

But most of the time we traveled at a painfully slow pace.

"Dealing with the school system - it's going to be a painfully slow process," he says.

The social situation is chaotic and democratic progress painfully slow.

It was almost like swimming, but in painfully slow motion.

The process of stopping the fires is now painfully slow.

The trek east, back along the trail we had come, was painfully slow.

The school district is struggling to improve its food at a painfully slow rate.

So far, the changes have been promising, but painfully slow and isolated.

In what seemed a painfully slow motion, he dragged it back down.

Their progress was painfully slow, but at least the men were not having to fight the wheel now.

We worked, painfully slow, until the heat and smoke made it impossible to continue.

Progress in the international climate negotiations has been painfully slow.