While he spoke, a steady trickle of customers approached him.
As he spoke, a steady line of vehicles, mostly taxis and town cars, pulled up to the pumps out front.
As she spoke, a steady stream of visitors walked into the 3rd Ward, many dressed in the Bushwick summer uniform of T-shirt with plunging scoop neck, rolled up denim shorts and battered canvas shoes from Tom's.
Natalie Bennett spoke of "steady growth... from a very solid base" for the party", and predicted gains in London, Liverpool, Oxford and Bristol in the English local elections on 22 May.
Karen wanted to begin speaking a steady stream of well-articulated language to her baby, but it was difficult to articulate.
"Our overall judgment is that although there was a slight dip in growth in the first quarter, it was, generally speaking, a steady start with stable progress," Sheng Laiyun, the spokesman, said in a televised news conference in Beijing.
He speaks in steady, serious tones, and his spacious apartment-studio is decorated with masks from his travels in Africa as well as his bigger-than-life-size portraits of members of the Samburu tribe of Kenya.
Appearing tired and haggard but speaking with steady conviction, Mr. Xu said in the video that the charges against him were really about his push to abolish discriminatory barriers against schoolchildren from rural areas and calling for public disclosure of officials' wealth.
Optically speaking though, steady employment "appears" safer than risky entrepreneurship.
You have to speak slow, steady, and clearly.
They spoke with the steady perspective of veterans who had had their share of success and disappointment in the last 10 years.
