in ones and twos
in small numbers:
The replies came back in ones and twos.
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Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- lag
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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Scarce, inadequate and not enough