The phrase "and a slight fall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor decrease or drop in something, such as temperature, prices, or performance.
Example: "The weather forecast predicts a warm day with clear skies and a slight fall in temperature by evening."
Alternatives: "and a minor drop" or "and a small decrease".
Thanks to a rapid expansion in the number of university places available in recent years and a slight fall in the number of applicants overall, a significant number of courses still have places available.
Variables that may explain this decline in mortality include a decrease in the age at diagnosis in women and a slight fall in the proportion of women who have cardiovascular disease including CHD and stroke at diagnosis.
An increase in creatinine clearance and a slight fall in serum creatinine, however not reaching a significance level, was observed in the stented group, while no increment in creatinine clearance was found in the control group (Table 3).
They were re-elected with increasing majorities in 1999 and 2004, and with a slight fall in its majority from 69% to 65.9% in 2009.
The meeting was also held before hopes of a soft landing in China were bolstered after the world's second-largest economy expanded quicker than economists predicted, and preceded a slight fall in local employment.
In the analysis of Cluster 1, a rise is seen from 2000 until 2003 and thereafter a slight fall.
A downturn in cross completion is only to be expected and a slight fall-off in tackles won is too small to be significant.
Liberal Democrats were overwhelmingly forecasting a drop in their party's number of MPs, with 31.7% expecting a significant decrease and 39.2% expecting a slight fall.
Overall, there were 2,597 deaths from legal and illegal substances, a slight fall from the previous year.
As the method of consent used was almost totally confounded with year it is possible that the differences are due to differences between the two academic years: 2007 2008 and 2009 2010; however, one school continued to use the same method of consent in both 2007 2008 and 2009 2010 with a slight fall in participation, highlighting the effect of the method of consent.
Staff numbers rose by 2,000; income from research rose by 12% and from teaching and tuition fees by 6%, with a slight fall in undergraduate numbers outweighed by the rise in postgraduates.
