The phrase "a very moderate increase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a change or growth that is slight or not significant in magnitude.
Example: "The report indicated a very moderate increase in sales over the last quarter, suggesting stability rather than rapid growth."
Alternatives: "a slight increase" or "a modest increase".
As shown in Fig. 3B, even after 48 hours of MMC treatment, there is only a very moderate increase of cells with amplified centrosomes.
In our study, however, the bivariate analysis showed only a very moderate increase in the number of contacts (15%) between the youngest and the oldest age group in the mm-sample, and this effect disappeared when controlled for other factors.
Comparisons between gap gene circuits with 4 or 6 genes indicate that even a very moderate increase in model complexity can lead to a significant decrease in reliability of the pLSA algorithm (J. Jaeger; unpublished results).
As a possible control, addition of 6800 nM antithrombin III (3-fold increase of the normal plasma concentration) should result in a very moderate increase of suppression by flow (= 1.38), definitely much less than in the case of TFPI addition (Fig. 6), and should not change the sensitivity to flow rate variation sufficiently (R' = 1.22).
It was found that the mean velocity and turbulent stresses are not significantly affected by the chemical reactions, which is in line with the very moderate increase of mean temperatures in the flames.
"It is a year of very moderate increases in premiums and health care costs," said Drew Altman, the chief executive and president of Kaiser, which tracks health care spending.
In normal gravity, acoustic excitation of droplets situated near a pressure node produced only very moderate increases in burning rate (about 11 15% higher than for nonacoustically excited, burning droplets) and produced no significant change in burning rate near a pressure antinode.
M. unguiculatus also possessed a distinct GCL visual streak with a sharp dorsal edge and a less well-defined ventral edge, whereas P. campbelli only showed a very moderate density increase with shallow dorsal and ventral gradients in the streak region.
Recently, the Breast Cancer Association Consortium pooled data from case-control studies examining this polymorphism, including 5,587 breast cancer cases and 6,863 controls, and found a very moderate per-allele increase in breast cancer risk associated with this polymorphism (OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.02 – 1.14) [ 40].
The apparent hydrodynamic radius of MO follows a very moderate linear (R = 0.80) increase with temperature (Table 2).
A very moderate (up to two-fold) increase of hCGβ in serum may occur in patients with benign pancreatic and hepatobiliary diseases, but this does not invalidate the use of hCGβ as a tumour marker (Alfthan et al, 1992a).
