Sentence examples for have contributed to a slight from inspiring English sources

EastEnders fever may have contributed to a slight fall-off in Lost's audience on Sky1.

He said last Sunday's snowstorm may have contributed to a slight increase in accidents, up from 367.

The sting operation was part of an effort by the Police Department to crack down on thefts of electronic devices, which have contributed to a slight increase in grand larcenies reported in the city.

Tuesday's announcement of the Treasury Department's plan to invest $250.0 billion into U.S. banks may have contributed to a slight thaw in credit markets, but the impact appeared minimal Wednesday.

"The fairly cold winter and slow arriving spring weather this year appears to have contributed to a slight decline in the number of Americans that think global warming is happening," said Chris Borick, director of the Muhlenberg Institute, which conducts the NSEE in partnership with the University of Michigan.

This might have contributed to a slight systematic bias, but since these arise from different precursors and have nonredundant functions, it was not appropriate to remove such families from the dataset.

The Philadelphia Suburban Corporation, a water company, reported that restrictions on water use had contributed to a slight decline in earnings.

However, it is potentially possible that slight changes in the venous return, not detectable by the central venous pressure, might have contributed to a recruitment of previously closed vessels.

Failure to reach a steady state condition during lactic acid infusion might have contributed to the slight increase in VCO2.

The lack of significant sporting events following the London Olympics, added to the good weather in 2013, are thought to have contributed to the slight dip.

While the changes in cytokine levels are likely to have contributed to the slight difference in size of the inflammatory lesions that were observed following infection with a high dose Mtb (Fig. 5E), we do not feel these data represent a significant biological difference between wild type and knockout animals.