The phrase "a small and slightly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is both small in size and has a minor degree of a particular quality or characteristic.
Example: "The garden had a small and slightly overgrown patch of grass that needed trimming."
Alternatives: "a tiny and somewhat" or "a little and slightly".
By anyone's judgment, that's a small (and slightly weird) segment.
The posts, nets and hand-stitched, flannel-covered India-rubber balls for the tournament were supplied by Jefferies & Co from Woolwich while the rackets used were an adaptation of those used in real tennis with a small and slightly lopsided head.
While the former is composed of large elongated parasites with a relatively short flagellum, the latter contains parasites with a small and slightly rounded body and a very long flagellum [17], [18].
Quercetin is a small and slightly lipophilic molecule (molecular weight=302 Da, octanol water partition coefficient, Ko/w∼1.2±0.13 (Brown et al, 1998)) and is expected to diffuse across cell membranes at a high rate.
Ranging from 20 to 22 cm (8 8 in) long with a 32 cm wingspan, the turquoise parrot is a small and slightly-built parrot weighing around 40 g Both sexes have predominantly green upperparts and yellow underparts.
"And in that area is a toaster, a small refrigerator, and slightly larger refrigerator, small and about four feet high, like one from the 1950s... We're not saying a refrigerator is the cause, we're just saying that's the area where [the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives] is looking". .
The case is 40.5mm by 37.5mm – 47mm including the lugs – which makes it about the size of a small Casio and slightly thinner and smaller than the 42mm Apple Watch.
Agata & Valentina on the Upper East Side was selling black trumpets for $18.99 a pound last week, but they were small and slightly shelf-worn when I bought them.
Second, and far more subtle, the new iPhone has both a smaller notch and slightly thinner bezels.
Kepler-9c is a gas giant that is smaller and slightly less massive than planet Saturn.
Rather the average size is asymptotically bounded by a small constant (slightly above 3), and thus the aforementioned two routines run in amortised constant average time.
