"a minor dip" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a small decrease or drop in something, such as a stock price, a person's mood, or a road's elevation. Here is an example: "The stock market experienced a minor dip in the afternoon, but overall, it remained steady and ended the day with a slight increase."
The world No164 will be grateful for the day's interlude, perhaps, but will do well to take a set off a two-slam winner 162 places above him in the rankings, who has corrected a minor dip.
Even a minor dip in the dominance of "Today" grabs outsize attention, as did last week's news that ABC's "Good Morning America" had cut "Today's" usual lead of some 800,000 viewers to fewer than 600,000 for one week.
"Sometimes it behooves a landlord to keep a tenant in place even if there is a minor dip below the market-rate rent," said Gary L. Malin, the president of Citi Habitats.
After a minor dip in form, Osaka followed that breakthrough by winning the Australian Open, becoming the first back-to-back champion since the American herself, in 2015 – and the first debutant winner to double up since Jennifer Capriati in 2001.
Konta's startling rise took her to brilliant heights in her mesmeric run to the last four of the Australian Open in January and the 25-year-old will be a dark horse in Paris, although though she has experienced a minor dip since her run in Melbourne.
It is hard to believe that the champion who destroyed Andy Murray on Friday to book his place in Sunday's final against Novak Djokovic was the same Nadal who complained of a back problem after a minor dip in the second set of his third-round win over Leonardo Mayer.
In initial N CEST studies of apoSOD12SH we noted that a large minor dip was present in profiles for G61 approximately 8 ppm upfield from the resonance position of the major conformer.
Despite the fact that the exchange dynamics at the level of the dimer interface are complex, all CEST profiles showed only a single minor dip and its position (and hence the chemical shift of the probe in the excited state) was determined robustly, even when the exchange parameters were not.
Further, in A4V apoSOD12SH minor dips in N CEST profiles involving residues reporting on process II could be distinctly observed, though those for the concentration-dependent processes I, III, and IV were no longer present.
This was counter-productive; clarity was replaced by ambiguity, a minor poll dip by something more serious.
Indeed, these are the only two parameters we would expect to reliably extract from a three-state fit of CEST profiles where the third state is not explicitly observed as a minor CEST dip but is necessary for obtaining a robust fit.
