The phrase "a slight quiet" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in a context where you want to describe a small amount of silence or calmness, but it is better to use more conventional expressions.
Example: "There was a slight quiet in the room as everyone awaited the announcement."
Alternatives: "a brief silence" or "a soft hush".
Mr Kennard is a different sort of top Democrat: a slight, quiet, lawyerly type with a reputation for not offending people.
Also along was a cook, Palden Dorjee, a slight, quiet man of 30, and Jigme, a short, stalwart 53-year-old, whose steady strength we would call on in some dark days to come.
The seventeen-year-old Xu Yun, a slight, quiet, and naïve Sichuan farm boy whose village is about to be razed to make way for an industrial zone, travels to the nearby city of Zigong in search of his father, who has been away from home for six years and is rumored to be a successful businessman.
At the novel's center are the orphaned Matsumoto brothers: Hiroshi, a strong and outgoing boy who longs to be a wrestler in the ancient, noble tradition of the sumotori, and Kenji, a slight, quiet child, mocked by his classmates as "Kenji the ghost," who dreams of being a Noh mask-maker.
No one pays any heed to the slight, quiet man in bootcut jeans and a tracksuit top, despite his looming presence on a huge, Taxi Driver-like poster in the foyer.
"A little quiet, please".
Years later, visiting him at his garden flat in Kilburn, it always struck me how little he had changed – he was still a tousled-haired figure with a slight mumble and quiet sense of humour, happiest when picking up a guitar and discussing music.
Maybe you make a very slight, very quiet noise when you get up off a sofa.
I might at first have felt a slight pang for literature, whose quiet triumphs never filled an arena, and whose minions toil while Dylan counts the clouds from his cliff-top estate in Malibu.
At speeds under 50kmph it was very quiet, with only a slight electric whine from the engine; great for those in the car, but not for the animals around it.
Speaking of his body of work in a recent interview, Mr. Brown, a slight 41-year-old with a quiet intensity, said: "I wanted to create something in which people would recognize themselves and see the human condition, rather than dancers focused on their physicality".
