During the two years that we were in office things never slipped back to anything like what they had been before.

"But things like that can slip a guys mind so easily."

And if I hadn't been very lucky, things could easily have slipped in.

But when she tried to catch its details, the whole thing slipped away.

We knew from our first look at it that things had slipped back on this world.

But lately he felt that things were slipping out of his control.

The trouble was, things slipped his mind after a while.

She knew how many things slipped through the cracks every day.

"We must not let things slip away and our situation become desperate," the voice says.

They like to keep it that way, so people don't have a chance to let things slip.