The phrase "a certain slightly" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to convey a specific degree or quality, but the combination of "a certain" and "slightly" is contradictory.
Example: "There is a certain slight difference in the two proposals."
Alternatives: "a somewhat minor" or "a particular small".
– it was largely overlooked that the studio had also picked up the rights to a certain slightly beat-up, fedora-sporting archaeological adventurer.
We can only hope that the Cowell embryo is not such a commercial disappointment: the fate of a certain slightly underperforming Fox property may well depend on it.
They certainly look the part, fooling several people on social media, and even have a certain, slightly off-putting, sulphurous smell, but they taste of absolutely nothing – better for an omelette, perhaps, than plain scrambling.
The director and choreographer Susan Stroman is interested in nostalgia, too, but her focus is not so much on getting things historically accurate as on imposing a certain, slightly rickety razzmatazz style on the show she's directing.
And although it has been on the market since last February, with a $4 million price reduction since then, the bizarre life and times of Ms. Clark seem to have given it a certain slightly eerie cachet.
In the US, his first novel for 34 years has just been published, and while he is boyishly delighted by some of the reviews – "not coda but overture", said the New York Times, acclaiming All That Is as "strikingly original" – he has detected a certain, slightly patronising tone elsewhere: "It's wondrous! they say.
One likely contributing factor is a lag between the appearance of certain slightly deleterious mutations and their removal from the population.
That theory has been discounted, yet some Okvik works are undoubtedly related to certain slightly older examples of Siberian metalwork.
In this paper, the authors prove that for suitable indexes and, the parametrized function is bounded on for with the assumption that the kernel of the operator satisfies some Hörmander-type condition, and is bounded from into weak with the assumption that the kernel satisfies certain slightly stronger Hörmander-type condition.
It is also a beautifully muted painting tonally, which perfectly seizes a certain kind of slightly melancholy, drizzle-blighted English atmosphere – muffled, slightly dingy, damp-feeling greens give way to rusty browns, greys.
There is a suggestion here of a certain carelessness, a slightly chancy attitude towards players already "in the red zone".
