The phrase "a slight period" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a brief or short duration of time.
Example: "After a slight period of hesitation, she decided to speak up."
Alternatives: "a brief moment" or "a short interval".
Again, it doesn't mean I ever love you any less, but it may mean my already gray hair masterfully covered by Yvette every five weeks, gets a slight period of remission.
Nevertheless, REV-ERBα null animals showed weak penetrance of a slight period shortening phenotype.
Finally, we noted that some, but not all, inhibitors (including lincomycin and kanamycin) caused a slight period shortening in seedlings grown under Fe deficiency (Supplementary Figures 16F, G and 17C).
Although teams and players can begin contract talks July 1, no deals can be signed until July 11, which could give the parties a slight buffer period to resolve the issue before it affects the Knicks' decisions.
Our satellite records of Arctic ice cover are from 1979,towards the end of a slight cooling period which spawned reports of a new ice age so some summer ice reduction would be expected since then.
I think – there's a slight blackout period – but I think I went straight from the club to the tattoo parlour.
Our finding of slight period lengthening relative to controls even at 18°C is consistent with a modest defect, with core clock effects getting stronger gradually as the temperature increases.
Surgery, again by transnasal endoscopic abscess evacuation, and the further course of anaesthesia were uneventful except for another slight period of discrete echocardiographic signs of the syndrome intraoperatively.
I think it was Richard getting his revenge for making him wait!' According to relationship counsellor and sex therapist Julia Cole, a slight pause, a period of restraint, cold showers and sleeping in pyjamas in the run-up to a wedding has become surprisingly common.
We did observe a slight increase in period length when Shaw was over-expressed in the 8.0-luc background indicating some influence on the central clock mechanism (Figure 4, black arrows compared to control grey arrows), perhaps caused by a missing feedback to central clock neurons in behaviorally arrhythmic flies.
As Table 8 shows, agricultural exports decreased from US$610 million on average in the period 1985-1989 to US$457 million in the period 1993-1994 and made a slight increase in the period 1995-2001 to an average of US$528 million.
