The energy released by the watch engine, the barrel, must be mastered, controlled and distributed parsimoniously at a rate corresponding to the real flow of time, to its exact measure.
Students surveyed who tried to learn everything the night before in one marathon session did not retain information as long as those who studied steadily a little bit every day.
She soon became interested in her work, for her emaciated purse grew stout, and the little hoard she was making to take Beth to the mountains next summer grew slowly but surely as the weeks passed.
It could cause people to fear for, you know, their economic stability, their financial stability rather, you know, and whether or not they're going to be okay in a year from now.
Plants are not all on a slow and steady march toward evolving flowers — bryophytes are on their own path, and they are doing just fine, thank you very much.
After a close examination of the creature's ancient bones, scientists were surprised to find that Whatcheeria did not grow slowly and continuously like modern reptiles and amphibians.
Well, we've heard from various central bankers harkening back to the 70s and 80s when inflation was running out of control and how destabilising that situation was.