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The phrase "a shade more than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a slight increase or difference in quantity, degree, or extent compared to something else.
Example: "The temperature today is a shade more than what it was yesterday, making it feel quite warm outside."
Alternatives: "a bit more than" or "slightly more than".
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Eventually, against Bangladesh, it came, but it took a shade more than a year.
By contrast, the average for all 30 teams was a shade more than $6 million.
On the day, it valued NatWest at £26.5 billion, only a shade more than the BoS offer.
The 14.6 million viewers were just a shade more than half the 27.1 million who watched in 1983.
State funds spending was $49.8 billion last year, up 3.8percentt -- a shade more than the rate of inflation.
He is averaging a shade more than 21 points a game as the Celtics have double-teamed him constantly to get the ball out of his hands.
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The region is a shade more violent than the rest of America, and much more so than Europe or Japan.
The hipsters would nod, a shade more tentatively than they had before.
The truth, however, may be a shade more complex than that.
"Educated Guess" sounds only a shade more unguarded than past albums.
But at their best, they come packaged with a shade more subtlety than this particular thriller delivers.
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