Slow march

[T]he Rector emerged, erect as a cane, from his garden, and proceeded in slow march, his hands behind him, down the cemetery.

This was no other than a column of foot soldiers, marching with perfect regularity. . . . On they came at a slow march.

Germany's newest song hit was hummed in streetcars, in movie theaters and at political meetings. . . . Its slow march tune was catchy, and its lyrics fitted Berlin's melancholy mood.

[S]ome spirits, more audacious than the rest, became restive under the slow march of events.

"[T]he venerable order, the broad slow march from precedent to precedent that has made our English people great and this sunny island free—it is all an idle tale."

For three decades, John Howard has been on a slow march to end centralized wage-fixing.