Example sentences of "slightly [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this ‘ slightly megalomaniac project ’ had been started on the strength of charitable donations , future progress should be funded by governments , if only because the project would otherwise be open to exploitation by private companies and their insatiable desire for secrecy . |
| 2 | In due time the Latin Church decreed that Easter should be ‘ celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon on or after 21 March ’ , and although this simplified matters slightly Easter Day might still fall on any one of thirty-five days , starting with 22 March and ending with 25 April , and the whole of the calendar was controlled by this wide spectrum . |
| 3 | Nonetheless it is an extremely engaging task — subjects would often press the brake pedal as the film showed the rapid approach to a junction , and some even reported feeling ‘ slightly car sick ’ by the end of the experiment . |
| 4 | 10:17 gives a slightly difference order for the middle section — Gershonites and Merarites carrying the tabernacle , then Reuben , Simeon and Gad , followed by the Kohathites with the sanctuary . |
| 5 | There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 4 pointed slightly rugose oral papillae ; Mortensen ( 1927 ) reports that there may be as many as 8 each side . |
| 6 | The granules of spinea have broad base and a trifid or slightly rugose crown , those of hamula have a narrower base and the crown is more rugose . |
| 7 | There are proximally 8 slightly rugose arm spines , the second dorsalmost one the largest , equal in length to 3 segments . |
| 8 | There are 8–9 slightly rugose arm spines of which the ventral spines are the most rugose . |
| 9 | There are 7 slightly rugose arm spines , often with larger points along the shaft of the spine . |
| 10 | There are up to 10 short only slightly rugose arm spines . |
| 11 | There are 6–8 slightly rugose arm spines , the dorsalmost arm spines are the longest up to 2 arm segments long , the ventral most are usually the most rugose . |
| 12 | There are 10 slightly rugose arm spines on proximal arm segments , 6–7 on distal ones . |
| 13 | There are 6–7 slightly rugose arm spines , the shaft of the spines has large secondary points . |
| 14 | The longer spines are mace-like ; with a slightly rugose body and a head with multiple points . |
| 15 | There is one large pointed slightly rugose tentacle scale on each pore . |
| 16 | There is one long pointed apical papilla flanked on either side by 3–4 similarly shaped apical papillae ; the papillae have a slightly rugose texture and are well separated from one another . |
| 17 | But to end on a slightly alarmist note , they may not have much more time than that . |
| 18 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |
| 19 | To each other , what Julia had heard Canon Wheeler describe as ‘ the senior clergy ’ were comradely in a slightly country cricket club way . |