Fans have complained that the publication schedule is disappointingly slow.

I have three parties out now, scouting the plain, but we've made disappointingly slow progress, because every- thing has to be done on foot.

The two sources agree that promised reforms on the subject have been disappointingly slow or uneven in implementation.

In the event, progress on decommissioning was disappointingly slow, and the two-year target was not met.

After his success in practice, his qualifying attempt was disappointingly slow.

After the early promise of Madrid, the peace talks have been disappointingly slow.

With slightly more than two weeks to go, the Christmas shopping season has been disappointingly slow for many retailers around the country.

Although our progress with China has been disappointingly slow in the short run, we are on the right track for the long run.

Some more militant reformers had even called for a boycott to protest the disappointingly slow pace of progress.

After all, humans had not even been considered for inclusion in any Presidian until two thousand years ago - human development having been disappointingly slow.