Sentence examples for order was slow from inspiring English sources

When I wore it to lunch, I wasn't charged for drinks, supposedly because my order was slow.

"I don't know about this guy," he said, after a drink order was slow in being filled.

The homebuilder Lennar reported a sharp rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, but its stock slipped 0.8 percent, to $40.68, on worries that growth in orders was slowing.

Shares of the company, however, slipped 0.83 percent on concerns that the growth in orders was slowing and that part of the gain in profit had come from a one-time accounting gain.

Though the company has always laid off workers when orders were slow, the layoffs came in dribs and drabs.

When Brafman first launched Packlane, she was flying solo and orders were slow in coming, she says.

"This was not hugely problematic we had money in the bank and investors were on board with this plan," Singh wrote in his post but then PepperTap also had to ensure that its logistics network was always ready to fulfill its promise of two-hour deliveries, even when orders were slow.

Most significantly, businesses report new orders are slowing along with GDP.

Big customers are paying later and suppliers are demanding cash earlier, while orders are slowing.

If that indication is accurate -- and the government's durable goods figures make it clear that growth in computer orders is slowing sharply -- then slower economic growth is likely.

Unisys, a provider of business computers and related services in Blue Bell, Pa., said that fourth-quarter profit fell 11percentt and that first-quarter earnings would miss analysts' estimates because orders were slowing.