Sentence examples for a modest advantage from inspiring English sources
In his second term, Mr. Obama has gained a modest advantage.
Recent polls show Mr. Thompson with a modest advantage, and each candidate is hoping that something about Mr. Ryan will rub off on them in the primary.
Colorado and Ohio are indeed the two closest states according to the FiveThirtyEight model, but it gives Mr. Obama a modest advantage in Iowa and Mr. Romney a solid lead in Florida.
Online polls conducted by Google Consumer Surveys on Wednesday and Thursday, after this week's presidential debate, also showed Mr. Obama with nominal leads of 2.2 and 0.6 points, reversing a modest advantage they had given to Mr. Romney before this Tuesday's presidential debate.
Nevertheless, there is enough data to conclude that Mr. Obama probably has a slight edge from national surveys, which until recently had pointed toward a tie — or perhaps a modest advantage for Mr. Romney in the immediate aftermath of the Denver debate.
Results indicated a modest advantage in academic achievement for children who entered kindergarten at a relatively older age during the first year of school, but this advantage disappeared by third grade.
The relative numbers of shRNA-GFP+ cells for sh Prox1 were expanded by approximately 4-fold following a short culture period of 5 days (p = 0.028), while shAsap1 conferred a more modest advantage of 1.5-fold (p = 0.011).
In the final days and hours of the campaign, the polls – which on average had been registering a modest Tory advantage over the past fortnight – have been converging on a dead heat.
The severe nature of the transmission bottleneck suggests that the selection of the breakthrough virus is a stochastic process in which a virus with a modest growth advantage in the mucosal compartments would be more likely to succeed in establishing infection.
Religiously active people in developed countries probably enjoy at least a modest health advantage over those in their community who stay away from church.
However the reported objective response rate for gemcitabine was only 5.4%, with only a modest survival advantage.
