Sentence examples for as slightly less from inspiring English sources

That perhaps means they are seen as slightly less edgy, but they have different service requirement than the others.

But at the rallies in Chattanooga and Green Bay, Mr. Bush had come across as slightly less ebullient than usual.

The upshot for Gove – who was already polling among Tory members as slightly less trustworthy than Marshal Pétain – is that he should probably never visit the countryside again.

She is also seen as slightly less rightwing than Cameron, and her chancellor, Philip Hammond, as a little to the left of his predecessor Osborne.

He joked that show's strapline should be: "Sherlock, coming back to you on BBC1 as slightly less of a dick, starring slightly-less-of-a-dick Benedict Cumberbatch".

The state with the biggest budget problems, California, is seen as slightly less likely to default than Spain but slightly more so than Italy.

Cinemas can reasonably hope for better from the coming weekend, when both Monsters University and Pacific Rim should enliven the market, and audiences may by then view sunny afternoons and warm evenings as slightly less-precious commodities.

Tails exposed to As alone shrank slightly less than controls.

Pointing to Hong Kong's success as an undemocratic British colony, and its continued success as a slightly less undemocratic "special administrative region" of China, the Communist Party can argue that this shows it was right to deny Hong Kong full democracy.

At Amazon.com you can get toolboxes with the whole kit and caboodle, as well as some with slightly less caboodle (Denali hundred-and-fifteen-piece Home Repair Tool Kit, $50).

Aetna declined to discuss the price under negotiation, but some Wall Street traders estimated it could be as high as $9 billion, only slightly less than the roughly $10 billion ING had offered for all of Aetna earlier this year.