Sentence examples for Slightly over a week from inspiring English sources

This is slightly over a week.

Joseph L. Bruno, the Republican majority leader of the Senate, predicted today that the budget, the main business of Albany, would be completed in slightly over a week.

For slightly over a week, the East Room was occupied by Lane's men, whom Lincoln's secretaries, John Hay and John Nicolay, described as "motley": dressed in civilian clothes and carrying new muskets, the westerners left cartridge boxes strewn on the velvet carpeting and conducted "rudimentary squad drill, under the light of the gorgeous gas chandeliers".

The decision comes slightly over a week after Oldsmer Park, Fla.

British reconnaissance failed to locate the ship, and after the fire was extinguished, the ship returned to Hamburg's Blohm & Voss shipyard, where repairs lasted slightly over a week.

Ganino and Stillwell managed to complete their new combined story in slightly over a week; the two writers spent hours each day at Stillwell's apartment working over every detail.

It is only fair to note that most of our senior citizens do better: The average per-capita income of those over sixty-five is now estimated to be slightly over $20 a week.

But Romney pulled slightly ahead a little over a week later, and as of Monday night had a tiny lead in the average.

Despite the bad news the Dow gained slightly over the week on hopes of lower interest rates.The downbeat news pushed the euro to a two-and-a-half-month high against the dollar this week.

The stockmarket rose and the real strengthened slightly over the week.

1.17am BST Why it the final surplus number ever so slightly bigger than it was just over a week ago?