Does your table variable have a primary key and is that used to join to the other tables? If not, that's going to be a performance problem right there since table variables don't maintain statistics. You may want to switch to a temporary table instead.
If it's an ad hoc query you may be seeing recompiles. Have you watched the execution through profiler?
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