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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'differ marginally' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when you want to describe two things that are almost the same, but not quite. For example, "The two versions of the project plan differ marginally, but the main objectives are very similar."
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Senior government advisers differ marginally on inflation forecasts but otherwise there is consensus that the good times can continue into 2004, perhaps beyond, without any overheating.
Post hoc contrasts showed that all levels differ significantly from each other although ethical and economic responsibilities differ marginally (p = .07).07
Since the SUVs for vascular plaques may only differ marginally from normal uptake [4], a background ratio (the flowing blood within the jugular vein was used for this analysis) to use as an internal control was obtained.
As observed in Figure 2 and in Table 3, we find that the ROC curves can differ marginally when the interaction factor is high (i.e. γ = 10).
The age distributions of the children examined in 2006 and 2010, respectively, did only differ marginally (proportions of children aged 5years: 49.3% in 2006; 50.3% in 2010).
For both the K10 and the K6, we found validity estimates for 12-month classifications only to differ marginally from those for 30-day classifications, showing our assumption is likely to be right (K10: optimal cut-off point 23; SE: 0.649; SP: 0.842; AUC:0.798; K6: optimal cut-off point 13; SE: 0.746; SP: 0.771; AUC 0.787).
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The proportions of respondents from the different professions differed marginally across the years.
Terceira was not different from Faial but differed marginally, yet significantly, from Pico and São Jorge (Additional file 1: Table S5).
(The.22 caliber bullet is the most common ammunition in the world. It differs marginally in diameter but is considerably less powerful than the.223 caliber bullet).
LCC visited for feeding by goats differed marginally from those of cattle (Figure 4).
Skyglow differed marginally, and in all cases with valid data changed by < ± 20%.
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