The phrase "a slight drift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or minor deviation from a particular course, position, or standard.
Example: "There was a slight drift in the ship's course due to the changing winds."
Alternatives: "a minor deviation" or "a small shift".
A slight drift from the standard 60-cycles-a-second pulse of alternating current can endanger plants' finely balanced turbines.
With polls suggest a slight drift of support in recent days towards the Tories, Labour will attempt to turn the election campaign focus on to the cost of living in the final full week of campaigning.
Before and after the earthquake, a slight drift of up to a few centimeters is observed in the east component.
The pilot began to make minor trim adjustments to accommodate a slight drift in pitch angle of the aircraft.
I noticed a very slight drift even when the mouse looked perfectly still, an artifact perhaps of my setup.
A slight variable drift of temporal trend of Candida spp. was observed during the 16 years of study, with a considerable percentage (75%) increase in non -albicans species in 2004 and 2013.
Figure 3 shows the medium-term stability (12 h experiment) of the SWCNTs-based thermo-MMA:nBA SSRE, pointing to an initial positive drift followed by a signal plateau and a slight negative drift of −1.2 ± 0.4 mV/h.
It is shown that even though an acceptable global accuracy can be achieved, the flux distribution presents a slight axial drift.
The ON-OFF-ON design was chosen as a slight temporal drift of the 13C-MRSI urea peak height was noted during preparation of the measurements.
To avoid error, a slight instrumental drift monitored by analyzing calibration standards at regular intervals during analysis alongside samples was taken into account.
The hurricane meandered in the same general area over the next two days, executing several small loops, with a slight northward drift.
