Sentence examples for began slowed from inspiring English sources

All the rain that fell before the tournament began slowed things down, then the tournament was delayed by another downpour in Thursday's first round and soaked again by rain all morning Friday.

A drawn-out adoption process began, slowed down by uncertainty over the exact fate of the girl's father, but in 1993 the adoption was ruled final.

Almost immediately, the locomotive began slowing down.

It has struggled to cope after Germany began slowing entries.

As Mr. Apotheker was trying to engineer this change, PC sales began slowing.

The population exceeded 20 million by the mid-1980s, after which the growth rate began slowing dramatically.

Last fall, United States Steel began slowing production in Granite City, laying off 40 or so apprentices.

In addition to damaging commerce at the sites, they began slowing traffic throughout the Internet.

At some point, the addition of extra cores began slowing the system down rather than speeding it up.

Traffic in the United States, its largest market, began slowing in June, Starbucks's chief executive, Howard D. Schultz, said in an interview.

Although the rate of population increase began slowing in the late 20th century, it is nearly twice that of South Korea.