Sentence examples for Slightly lengthened from inspiring English sources

After two false starts, the Graduate Record Exam, the graduate school entrance test, will be revamped and slightly lengthened in 2011 and graded on a new scale of 130 to 170.

Even if this method produced an acoustically perfect scale (which it does not), the player would not be able to reproduce this exactly, for as he presses the string to the fingerboard, the string is stretched and is thus slightly lengthened.

Remember the awful Mustang II, whose body was grafted onto a slightly lengthened Pinto chassis?

In 1931, the ship's first major modification took place; her foremast was shortened and her rear superstructure was slightly lengthened.

The 12° dihedral of the tail stabilizers was eliminated and the rudder enlarged which slightly lengthened the aircraft.

* Twin turrets with two machine guns, thicker armor, slightly lengthened hull, improved engine access, increased gear ratios, better engine cooling, improved suspension, and other minor detail changes.

The energy from photons modifies a double bond and causes retinal to slightly lengthen in size.

Although this process might slightly lengthen your sales cycle, it gets prospective customers to invest more time in working with your company; this often prompts them to want to do business with you.

Indeed, Li slightly lengthens the circadian period of behavioral rhythms and delays the phase of behavioral and physiological circadian rhythms (such as sleep-wakefulness and body temperature rhythms) in many species, from healthy and affected humans to rats (Johnsson et al. 1983; Pflug and Engelmann 1987; Klemfuss and Kripke 1995).

The same year, the design was modified slightly, lengthening some of the leaves on the reverse.

The double protonation of the γ-phosphate tends to slightly lengthen this bond length.