Sentence examples for a slightly closer from inspiring English sources

Upon a slightly closer inspection, looking at the actual retraction numbers in the PNAS study, there have been a total of 2047 papers retracted (between 1977 and May 2012) from the biomedical literature.

They discovered that in the time that it took for a trade from R.B.C. to travel through fiber optic cables from a slightly closer exchange to a slightly farther exchange, a high-speed trading firm could spot the trade, cancel its order on one exchange and raise the price on another to take advantage of the R.B.C. client.

A slightly closer look reveals that any such simple characterization is misleading, because the first half is also about rhetoric, in several different ways.

Sure, but as is typically the case with most plainly obvious things, when one takes a slightly closer look, nuance and variation abound.

Juno orbits at a slightly closer mean distance to the Sun than Ceres or Pallas.

The Quinnipiac poll shows Blumenthal's margin over McMahon narrowing to just three points (49% to 46%), a slightly closer margin than on their previous poll earlier in the month (51%to45%51%to45%

STEREO-Ahead (STEREO-A) orbits slightly closer to the Sun than the Earth, and STEREO-Behind (STEREO-B) orbits at a farther distance from the Sun than the Earth.

The second negatively charged droplet is merged with the left-side positively charged droplet because this droplet is dispensed at a position slightly closer to the left side.

The house is six miles on a major freeway from a shopping mall, though slightly closer to a couple of commercial stretches that have grocery stores, pharmacies and other amenities.

Due to the depressingly small population of Gone With the Wind fans in my friendship circle, I started with the novel which had a reader base slightly closer to the age group I was interviewing.

The scroll wave was initiated at a central location slightly closer to the apex of the heart).