The phrase "and a slight drop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor decrease in a quantity or measurement, often in contexts such as statistics, finance, or physical measurements.
Example: "The temperature remained stable throughout the day, with a slight drop in the evening."
Alternatives: "and a minor decrease" or "and a small decline".
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (AP) -Steady mortgage rates and a slight drop in the median resale price made the average existing home more affordable than at any time in the last eight years, a trade group said today.
A study published Tuesday in Health Affairs reports new evidence of health insurance's salutary effects on chronic disease, quantifying those effects down to changes in blood sugar control, blood pressure and a slight drop in cholesterol.
About 87percentt of travelers are expected to take the car, the highest percentage AAA ever found in a survey and a slight drop, 1.6percentt, compared with the number of Thanksgiving motorists last year.
Despite the economic recession and a slight drop in numbers on 2012 – a record year – the city's tourist authorities say 2013 is set to be "one of the tourist grands crus" for the capital.
The gloom comes despite signs the economy has been holding up recently during the rising worries — other data released Thursday showed a healthy gain in new-home sales and a slight drop in new jobless claims.
Last year, Detroit police reported a decline in robberies and a slight drop in homicides.
Our lowest performing model recorded 0.862 precision and only a slight drop in recall and F1 score at 0.855 and 0.854 respectively.
The difficulty is that in fully mature eggs the structures containing genes are spread out and ready to divide, and even a slight drop in temperature tends to shatter the chromosomes, Dr. Marrs said.
Even though, for some methods (such as NB, Decorate and J48) a slight drop was observed for ZINC_random and MDDR_random sets indicated by shifting in colours of boxes corresponding to experiments with its use from dark to light red.
We had earlier shown that a classifier trained on only H. sapiens NAGNAG data could predict NAGNAG splicing outcomes with near-identical accuracy on other vertebrate genomes (mouse, rat, dog, chicken), and with a slight drop in the case of D. melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans [ 10].
But the study also reveals that while genetic testing rates increased, there was no change in average, overall mastectomy rates in the six months following the article's publication – and showed a slight drop in mastectomy rates among those who had BRCA tests.
