But today provided a glimpse of the slow task ahead.

They had barely finished this slow and difficult task when the police and the ambulance arrived together.

A steady stream of private cars and limousines made pulling into the drive a slow task.

It was a long slow task, getting those spoils down to the cellar.

It would be a slow task to mend them enough so that he could travel.

It was a slow task, much fraught with chance of discovery.

He was seeking a fraction more play before continuing his infinitesimally slow task.

Man had come a long way with the slow task of taming the world.

The trailing had been a slow task on which Harry had followed wrong roads more than once.

Shalarn turned and began the slow task of picking her way through the forest.