The phrase "a brief slightly" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to describe something that is both brief and slightly so, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "I would like to provide a brief overview of the topic, slightly adjusted for clarity."
Alternatives: "a short slightly" or "a concise somewhat".
Here we try to provide a brief, but slightly more systematic taxonomy of the types of tasks addressed in statistical NLP, and some sense of the modeling techniques and algorithms that are most commonly used and have made statistical NLP so predominant in recent years, challenging the traditional view of computational linguistics.
Her brief, slightly underwhelming set was drawn exclusively from her album, save for a cover of "A Whole New World," from the 1992 Disney film "Aladdin," performed rather clumsily with Mr. Driscoll: suffice it to say that Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle aren't losing any sleep.
According to Wells's own brief, slightly ashamed account in the Postscript, he "never found any great charm in Rosamund", but "she talked of love and how her father's attentions to her were becoming unfatherly", so he decided to protect her from incest by possessing her himself.
If one were to be curmudgeonly, one might say that A Brief History is slightly more impressive for its ambition than its accomplishment.
Forrest's only real hiccup of the week came during today's weigh-in at the Indiana Convention Center; he tipped the scale at 147.3 pounds wearing only his briefs, slightly over the 147-pound limit.
The look of the boxer briefs slightly bunched up in your butt crack is very cool.
It comes amid a brief series of examples of slightly wayward behaviour by the singer, who has been embroiled in a court dispute with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie over their teenage son, Rocco.
Each bubble has been less extreme than the previous one, and stocks even returned to the point where they were slightly cheap for a brief period in 2009.
But, I for one, who only knew them slightly and for a brief time at that, can't agree.
The text, which also survives in slightly different versions, included a brief analysis of the international scene.
