Slow saving with Pages 09

I work regularly in Pages 09 on a MacBook Air, OS 10.6.8 with files having 50,000 words and about 15images (1280x720 each), no big load in my opinion.
I write stories and they take about 6-9 months of developing before I finish and export.
This is the third story that after 7 or 8 months, when I make simple profreading changes such as a comma here or a comma there, I get a very slow save including a progress bar. Mind you the save probably takes no more than 5 seconds…but, for a comma?
It behaves like its cache is full or what, my MacBook Air hard drive is full. Still have 25GB free ot of 125BG internal and 250GB out of 1TB external.
How come it saves so slowly? Makes me think a crash is due.
Ideas?

Thank you Peter:
A restart would be a good idea. Yup, done that, no change.
Do you have Safari open, possibly with lots of tabs as well? Not simultaneously. Pages open by itself.
Also are you using TimeMachine and/or iCloud? I use Time Machine to archive; but I manually archive, keeping Time Machine off during my work time.
You say you have an external hard drive. What are you booted from and what are you saving to? Boot off internal. Saving to external.
That last question might be a clue. But I use that same proces for STP3, Motion4 and FCP7 and for FCP and STP have not noticed delays…but for Motion4 I have had similar long saves like Pages…even on small text corrections in Motion.
Scratch files are on the internal and permanent files are on the external.
What do you think Peter?
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