The phrase "a very slight decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a minimal reduction in quantity, size, or intensity.
Example: "The report indicated a very slight decrease in sales compared to the previous quarter."
Alternatives: "a minor reduction" or "a negligible decline."
In New York City, 18.4percentt of fourth graders scored in Level 1 this year, a very slight decrease from 1999-2000.
In addition, the seawater immersion brings in a very slight decrease in the tensile strength for the PU and CFRPU plates.
It is a very slight decrease, but it equates to $32m". The increase in funding in the previous year was largely due to a few new donors, says the report.
This is not an exact science, and CBO said the full range of the impact on employment was a very slight decrease in jobs to as many as 1 million fewer jobs.
In the frequency-independent regime (≤1 GHz), increasing the length of individual SWCNTs causes a very slight decrease of elastic properties and has minor influence on the viscous mode.
Once you get to 400 ISO you notice a very slight decrease in sharpness.
From 1979 to 2012, annual evaporation of Nam Co Lake expressed a very slight decreasing trend.
It's not totally clear how these physical brain changes translate to function: The only change in cognition was that with increasing alcohol consumption, there was very slight decrease in performance on a test of semantic fluency, which measures how many words a person can generate in a particular category within a certain amount of time.
Overall, there was an increase in QOL, decrease in PHQ9A, and very slight decrease in BMI z-score over the duration of the study from V1 to V3 (or from zero to 450 days).
Whereas Pb2+ and Cr6+ showed very slight decrease in Cd2+ biosorption in binary system.
It was found that after 10 minutes the reaction product reached the highest fluorescence intensity and remained stable up to 20 min, after which very slight decrease in the fluorescence intensity of the reaction product was observed (Figure 4).
