The Government's first estimate of economic growth in the second quarter showed surprisingly slow final demand, and a big surge in inventories.

With all that was and still is at stake in Iraq, Congress has been surprisingly slow to look into past American policy.

The word had gotten out to the street, surprisingly slow but inevitable.

Italy, Denmark and France were singled out as having been "surprisingly slow" to react.

The flow of bits can be surprisingly slow under certain circumstances.

The reaction of the interior provinces was surprisingly slow but inevitable.

A cloud of black smoke and debris leapt into the sky before settling back to earth in a surprisingly slow seeming motion.

The man buckled at the knees and was surprisingly slow to get up.

Although the point is not new, television has been surprisingly slow to get it: black people are not monolithic.

But the 9370, a smaller version of the company's largest mainframes, got off to a surprisingly slow start.