Sentence examples for drop off slightly from inspiring English sources

But if there's storm activity, that will help the temperatures drop off slightly," he says.

New outpatient cases — a measure based on what percentage of doctor visits were for colds or flu — dropped off slightly from the previous week, to 4 percent from 6 percent.

The striker was in flying form at the beginning of the season, but has dropped off slightly as the team slumped.

A two-time Gold Glove winner who hit four home runs in a game in 2002, the 30-year-old Cameron dropped off slightly last year (18 homers, 76 runs batted in) in the worst of his four seasons as a Mariner.

"We played some good rugby in the first half, but our performance level dropped off slightly in the second half and Argentina came back hard.

Recent statistics from both Nielsen//NetRatings and Media Metrix, another measurement agency, have suggested that web usage has reached a plateau and may even be dropping off slightly.

Surprisingly, the model indicated that CO2 levels dropped off slightly from west to east across North America--even though fossil fuel emissions should boost levels in the east.

The week before Thanksgiving, Pecaut predicted that traditional retailers would still experience a sharp holiday surge, while online sales would increase steadily straight through the end of the first week in December, dropping off slightly afterwards due to shipping and delivery cut-off deadlines.

Incidents dropped off slightly since the summer, but some security analysts believe the lull is more weather-related than strategic.

So in terms of quantity it's probably dropped off slightly but there hasn't been a large difference there.

Viewing dropped off slightly between 11.30am and 12pm, to an average of 370,000, however the audience was still up well over 300% on the typical average for Sky News between 11am and 12pm over the last three months.