Example sentences of "slightly [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not having set off from directly overhead Gransden ( a practice advisable in murky conditions ) we are slightly south of track . |
| 2 | That that seems to me to be slightly back to front as as a justification for increasing the figures . |
| 3 | Mr Lyons , leader of the MSF technical union , believes — albeit slightly tongue in cheek — that the more exotic menu is fully justified . |
| 4 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 5 | For example , in the Sahara the dunes are orientated slightly east of south in the north and then veer consistently in direction until they are orientated somewhat south of west in the southern Sahara , beyond which similar orientation is betrayed by the old fixed dunes ( Fig . |
| 6 | Leave the shelter taking a course slightly north of east . |