21.   Maybe the pace will slow simply because tech companies run out of people to lay off.

22.   Markets advanced in the third quarter, although the pace slowed.

23.   Nor are Japanese companies likely to alter their strategies of moving manufacturing offshore, though the pace might slow a little.

24.   Pugsley added that he expects the pace to slow somewhat as the defense case progresses.

25.   Since then the pace has slowed.

26.   Such art exchanges were fairly common during the Soviet era, but the pace has slowed because of Western concern over the security of artworks on loan to Russia.

27.   That pace is now slowing.

28.   That pace has slowed recently.

29.   The downside of his narrative is that the pace often slows to a crawl, magnifying trivial emotions and making the course through them seem sometimes endless.

30.   The pace has slowed considerably since then, however.