Sentence examples for be the slight from inspiring English sources

The American will be the slight favourite.

But as of now, Obama must be the slight favorite to win it.

Venus will be the slight underdog against Kerber but she will have plenty of well-wishers against the fourth seed.

For now, Paris and the existing Roland Garros stadium still look to be the slight favorites, considering the French emphasis on tradition and centralization, and the prohibitive cost of building elsewhere from scratch.

If you could be churlish enough to have any criticism of this pop perfection, with its groovy bass guitar and chic retro strings, then it would be the slight lack of personality that pervades the vocals, which is by turns delightfully ambiguous and then a bit... namby pamby.

My guess is that if Mr. Romney and Mr. Gingrich are roughly tied in the Florida polls once we get fresh data, Mr. Romney would be the slight favorite to win the state because of his advantages in advertising dollars and early voting.

There doesn't seem to be the slightest chance of escape.

The only movement was the slight stirring of a flag.

It was the slight of Iraq's miraculous team.

It didn't, and that is the slight loophole [Higgins] is referring to".

The only thing that was problematic about this performance was the slight technical overload.