Sentence examples for be only slightly lower from inspiring English sources

Cox's offer was said to be only slightly lower than Comcast's, but it sought control of the merged company's board.

The equivalent for those studying outside London is likely to be only slightly lower, the Bar Council estimates, at about £111,000.

The density of mutations that we discovered appears to be only slightly lower than what is obtained for Arabidopsis using the same methodology.

By far the largest proportion of patients or consumers will demonstrate personal risks for multifactorial diseases that approximate the average population risk: these risks will prove to be only slightly lower or slightly higher [ 31].

The high prevalence of PAD and different measures of DPN in our RC group seem to be only slightly lower than previously reported values among people with clinically diagnosed diabetes.

Comparison with the automatic algorithm showed the mean absolute difference between human observers to be only slightly lower than between human and automatic observers (ILM: 2.32 pixels vs. 2.96 pixels, RPE: 2.96 pixels vs. 3.48 pixels).

Profits of £80m were only slightly lower than the previous year.

This figure was only slightly lower than in a similar survey carried out in August.

Pfizer's first-quarter profit of $2.73 billion was only slightly lower than last year's figure of $2.78 billion.

Last night, prices of futures on the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index were only slightly lower and stock prices in Tokyo generally were slightly higher.

That 2015 figure is only slightly lower than that for 2013 but it is, nevertheless, the second lowest since 1992, prompting solicitor Mark Stephens to describe the fall as "phenomenal".