Example sentences of "slightly [adj -er] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the shop floor in a supermarket is usually about 600 square metres ( slightly larger than a tennis court ) . |
| 2 | Then there is the fishing cat Felis viverrina , meaning the ferret-like cat , which frequents swampy ground , has slightly webbed feet and can , as its name suggests , hook fish out of shallow water with its claws ; the flat-headed cat , Felis plamiceps , of Malaya , Borneo and Sumatra which preys on frogs , fish and small birds and the marbled cat , Felis marmorata , which lives in Sumatra and Borneo and is only slightly larger than a domestic cat . |
| 3 | Carrington was carrying what appeared to be a portable radio : Grant had a black metallic box slightly larger than a sheet of foolscap paper and less than three inches thick . |
| 4 | Paddington was beginning to loom slightly larger than a man 's hand on the horizon ; Paddington was where the murdered Kemp had stood and phoned The Randolph the previous day . |
| 5 | In fact their performance was slightly better than a control group of subjects who had one night 's sleep deprivation with no prior selective deprivation . |
| 6 | The cuckoo is a medium-sized bird , weighing about 120 g ( 4.2 oz ) — slightly smaller than a pigeon . |
| 7 | Now , it was chiselled into remote lines , his eyes a shade slightly cooler than a glacier . |
| 8 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 9 | The carriages are smaller than most public transport vehicles , with the largest carriage having a width of 2.2 metres , only slightly wider than a bus . |
| 10 | The scale length is traditional Fender , and the width at the nut is ″ , though there 's a slightly narrower and a slightly wider option available . |