Sentence examples for gain slightly from inspiring English sources
Most people in the richer half of the country actually gain, slightly.
[C7.] Major Stock Gauges Gain Slightly as Oil Falls The Dow Jones industrial average rose 34.07 points, to 10,634.38.
National polls showed a modestly favorable trend for President Obama, allowing him to gain slightly in our forecast.
The Nasdaq composite index finished at 4,550.33, up 3.84percentt, with the 168.21-point gain slightly greater than the previous one-day record of 167.05 points on Jan . 10
The calculations indicated that a buyer making a 10 percent down payment would gain slightly less than a buyer paying 3 percent — mostly because of the home mortgage deduction on income taxes.
About two-thirds of Koc Holding's sales are not sensitive to the domestic economy: the businesses that export cars and domestic appliances gain slightly from a weaker lira.Sabanci recently reported a net short foreign-currency position of €409m ($558m).
Bond yields rose, and the lira gained slightly.
The category that has not shed jobs, even gaining slightly, is "software services," mostly programmers.
The results were not as bad as analysts had feared, and Infineon shares gained slightly.
The Nasdaq composite index and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, both gained slightly for the week.
The S&P 500 also gained slightly, rising 0.2% but the tech-heavy Nasdaq dipped 0.81%.
