The phrase "a slightly lower amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing quantities or values, indicating that one is less than another by a small degree.
Example: "The new budget allocates a slightly lower amount for marketing than last year."
Alternatives: "a somewhat reduced amount" or "a marginally lesser amount".
The savings of $65 each month from no longer paying P.M.I., along with the $120 savings on their new mortgage loan (which was for a slightly lower amount than their previous loan), add up to about $185.
The news confirms TechCrunch's (and the WSJ's) earlier reports of Secret's funding, though at a slightly lower amount than previously stated.
The amount drivers pay in duty will go up, but at a slightly lower amount than originally intended by the Treasury.
While past reports indicated that Matrix raised a slightly lower amount than in previous funds, the firm said that this was the third consecutive fund that totalled $450 million.
As expected, a slightly lower amount of reducing sugars was released from insoluble than the soluble oat spelt xylan, especially by the Nf xylC.
The transcription of the second longest gene in the genome (SMF2FGGW_101095), which is responsible for the synthesis of 12-aa peptaibols, was also increased (11.2 to 19.8 FPKM), although by a slightly lower amount.
For existing reservoirs, the new study found a slightly lower total amount of greenhouse gases 770 megatons per year than previous studies.
However, this is not the case, since axons stop in shallow gradients after having overgrown a slightly lower total amount of surface-bound ephrinA5.
However, for both isolates CPOH4 and TPST6 a slightly higher amount of oleic acid (C18 1) and slightly lower amount of linolic acid (C18 2) was observed when cultured on glucose.
The RRBS reads of the pig exhibited a slightly lower frequency of multiple mapped reads than human (5.35 vs. 7.7%, respectively), and the percentage of total CpG sites in the pig RR genome (18.34%) was 4.84% higher than in the human, which may be attributed to slightly lower amount of repeat elements (∼40% of the genome) in the pig compared with those in the human (nearly 50%).
Instead, a lower glycemic index coupled with slightly lower amounts of fructose makes coconut sugar, like honey, a slightly better alternative to table sugar and an acceptable occasional "proceed with caution" sweetener.
