Example sentences of "slightly [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average correlation observed , 0.32 , between a subject 's estimates and the true figures is only slightly lower than the correlation of 0.4 reported in Brehmer ( 1987 ) and any difference could be accounted for by the different range of actual accident statistics used in the two studies . |
| 2 | The room we sat in contained two television sets , two oak sideboards , slightly lower than the ceiling and four clocks all stopped at different times . |
| 3 | In pentagonally shaped plates there is often a distal tongue or lobe slightly lower than the rest of the plate . |
| 4 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 5 | The earliest examples have straight pommel bars and guards , the latter slightly broader than the heel of the blade , and capped by a mount in the shape of a cocked hat . |
| 6 | This should be slightly bigger than the piece to be worked . |
| 7 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
| 8 | The " sexual peak " of womanhood is slightly later than the man 's — around the age of 30 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The size of the shop floor in a supermarket is usually about 600 square metres ( slightly larger than a tennis court ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He put different shapes and sizes of enclosure inside the larger pen , and found the expected mothers readily went into an enclosed but generously bedded area , slightly larger than the space needed to stand up and lie down . |
| 13 | Clear off all loose top soil within an area slightly larger than the size of the workshop . |
| 14 | Where there is a relatively small hole in the board , such as where a light fitting has been removed , you only need a small piece of plasterboard slightly larger than the hole . |
| 15 | The plastic tube is perforated with holes slightly larger than the thickness of an average maggot . |
| 16 | The female peregrine is slightly larger than the male , more brown than black , and the bands across the chest are n't as distinctive . |
| 17 | ( iv ) Remove these outer cells by pipetting the embryos through a flame-polished micropipette with an internal diameter slightly larger than the clump of inside cells or ICM . |
| 18 | Make it slightly larger than the key . |
| 19 | The inner edge of the turning will be slightly larger than the curtain it rests against , so it will be necessary to make tucks periodically along the edge so that the turning will lie flat . |
| 20 | The slug had missed the bone and major blood vessels and had not spread during its brief passage , so the exit wound was only slightly larger than the entry wound . |
| 21 | You will then need to drill a hole in each of the four corners , about 13mm ( ½in ) in from each side , using a drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the four bolts you intend to use . |
| 22 | The walls of the fridge need to be slightly thicker because the insulation is not as effective as CFC-blown foam . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Note that speaker 1 ( aged twelve — preadolescent ) was incorrectly judged to be white by nearly all respondents , but that the black group were slightly better than the white at identifying speaker 5 ( aged sixteen — adolescent ) . |
| 25 | The cuckoo is a medium-sized bird , weighing about 120 g ( 4.2 oz ) — slightly smaller than a pigeon . |
| 26 | The King Charles Spaniel is slightly smaller than the Cavalier , and has a domed head and snub-nosed face , while the Cavalier has a longer muzzle . |
| 27 | Cut out the piece of paper , fabric or other backing material very slightly smaller than the back of the frame . |
| 28 | If their heads protrude , pare them down with a chisel , and then drill slightly smaller than the peg diameter , and drill out the peg ( use a depth gauge so you do n't go right through the leg ) . |
| 29 | If you have decided to use a mount , the card or fabric should be cut slightly smaller than the mount and then taped to it securely . |
| 30 | And for the gentlest simmer you have ever seen , you choose a pan that 's slightly smaller than the Disc and the heat will spread evenly through the base of the pan . |