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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a slight slightly" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It cannot be used as it stands because it combines two similar words in a way that is redundant and confusing.
Example: "There was a slight, slightly unexpected change in the schedule."
Alternatives: "a small degree" or "a minor amount".
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They pull up to McMurtry's house, in the suburbs, and the door of the house opens and out comes McMurtry, a slight, slightly wan, kindly looking shy-looking guy, ambling out, with his little boy, his son, and Cassady opens the door of the bus so everybody can get off, and suddenly Stark Naked shrieks out: 'Frankie!
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But my sense of belonging is a little less, and I have a slight (and perhaps slightly embittering) feeling of betrayal – similar in kind though not in scale to those loyal communities in the old empire such as the Anglo-Indians, who came to believe in the end that they had hitched their fortunes to the wrong star.
Intrapleural pressures are normally a slight suction or slightly negative; generally about−5 cm H2O.
For the XRPD structures, only 25% had been determined at low temperature, introducing a slight bias towards slightly higher RMSCD values.
This hot, primordial soup expanded and cooled, creating a slight asymmetry between matter (slightly more) and antimatter (slightly less).
If it's slightly downhill you'll go slightly earlier, if there's a slight headwind you'll go slightly later". Head low over the bars, covering each metre in less than 0.05 of a second, how can you always sense where that point is? "Sometimes tactically you have to go earlier or later.
As a result, actual and expected bookings for ads with Gannett's TV stations ended the month with a slight decline, despite being slightly higher in mid-March.
They reiterated their outlook for the rest of the year, which includes no revenue growth and possibly a slight dip, with profits slightly ahead of Wall Street estimates.
The major DARPin peaks generally eluted with a slight retardation, giving a slightly lower apparent MW than expected (Table 1), calculated using a protein standard consisting of four globular proteins.
The surface unit cell of the α domain exhibits a mirror symmetry along the mica [110] direction and a slight corrugation because of slightly lower oxygen along the same direction (for the β-sheet everything is equivalent, but rotated by 120° with respect to the α-sheet).
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