The shooting is not rapid fire.
At first his progress was not rapid.
"But it's not rapid," he said.
But reform must come in small steps and not rapid action.
The team swam in the pool, went rafting in rapids not rapid enough to be classified, and sank paddle boats in the lake.
In recent weeks, Microsoft has splashily released its own version of an electronic reader, which illustrates the relentless if not rapid progress taking place in this market.
"It's rapid in geological terms, but it's probably not rapid to anyone who's not a geologist," said Paul Smith, the director of the Oxford Museum of Natural History.
Throughout the 1890's, though they were a time of economic misery for many, the westward migration was, in the words of demographic historian Walter Nugent, "not rapid, but steady and endemic".
"Progress is not rapid enough," because each day 8,000 people are dying from AIDS, the report said, while asserting that the slow start still would generate enough pressure to speed the effort later.
The ruins of vegetation were heaped upon one another; but there was no laboring hand to remove them, and their decay was not rapid enough to make room for the continual work of reproduction.
"Anything that indicates more of a stabilization -- and not rapid declines -- in housing is probably a good thing," said Jason D. Pride, director of investment strategy at Glenmede in Philadelphia.
