We're getting the work done, 'slowly but surely'.
Things are 'slowly' getting better.
working/talking/moving 'slowly'
(..) And the rest of them are turning up anyway. And so life in the Shire goes on... ... very much as it has this past Age... ...full of its own comings and goings,with change coming slowly. If it comes at all. For things are made to endure in the Shire... ...passing from one generation to the next. (..)2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring