Example sentences of "slightly [adj -er] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the year 2000 gas will be supplying a slightly lower proportion of energy demand than in 1983 but consumption will rise slightly . |
| 2 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 3 | They pay a slightly lower rate of interest on money at call than they earn by discounting bills . |
| 4 | For the back legs , roll two longer , slightly fatter sausages of icing and flatten the ends for feet . |
| 5 | forms on slightly bigger pieces of paper I think . |
| 6 | Beyond , a slightly steeper slope of pasture rose to a low skyline with a toupeé of trees . |
| 7 | Again we 're back to the the the same arguments on the capital receipt and I do n't intend to begin re-rehearsing those but quite frankly , I mean I would n't claim by any to have a vast or a a slightly deeper knowledge of housing finance but obviously since you 've been on the council the same length of time as I have , I mean you 've got even less . |
| 8 | Even so , I do n't know how he survived that fall ; God knows what he broke , how he suffered , how long he took to crawl there to the other slightly brighter patch of light ; how long he took to die . |
| 9 | The previous 1991 order was discussed at a slightly later time of night , but on the same day of the week nine months ago , since when there has been no significant change in the construction industry 's circumstances . |
| 10 | Practically on arrival I was caught up with what was a slightly better standard of rugger and tennis , No 4 Flying Training School ( FTS ) . |
| 11 | Three miles to the west , near the village of Austerlitz , ninety thousand Russian and Hapsburg troops faced a slightly smaller number of French in preparation for the decisive battle of the campaign . |
| 12 | Smith Kline Beecham spokesman Alan Chandler said : ‘ Once we found we had a slightly higher incidence of mumps-meningitis we notified the authorities . |
| 13 | Now , if , if a child sends a distress call to a certain level of intensity , it may get a certain amount back , but it may have a sibling who sends the distress call a slightly higher level of intensity and might get some more back . |
| 14 | Reviewing McBride , Eliot quoted from that writer 's conclusion that , given proper education of mind and body , ‘ the next generation may start at a very slightly higher level of capacity than their fathers ’ . |
| 15 | Three species of owl produce slightly higher levels of breakage of the teeth of their prey , mainly of isolated teeth rather than those preserved in the jaws , and these will be seen below to be the same species that produce the greatest degrees of digestion , namely the European eagle owl , tawny owl and little owl . |
| 16 | There was no moon , and in the pale starlight the river showed between the banks as a slightly thinner shade of black . |
| 17 | There were some indications that users of freelancers might make slightly greater use of agency workers , but equally that high users of part-timers tended to be lower users of agency workers . |