Sentence examples for improved only moderately from inspiring English sources

The 5-year overall survival (OS) rate for lung cancer patients in the United States has improved only moderately over the past four decades from 12.2% in 1975 to 17.8% in 2010, despite the use of many therapeutic modalities [ 5– 7].

O&O also forecast that the advertising downturn across all media, one of the steepest and longest for generations, would improve only moderately next year before starting to lift in 2011.

Service also improved, although only moderately.

Sales are improving only slowly.

The use of 3D DOPU windows (Fig. 6 e), window size: 6 z) × 4 x) × 4 y) pixels; and Fig. 6(f), window size: 6 z) × 2 x) × 6 y) pixels) improves the situation only moderately (the color value stays more in the greenish range in these areas).

Cell viability was only moderately improved upon silencing of the other early genes.

By contrast, the traditional didactic lecture only moderately improved the knowledge of depression and had no effect upon attitudes.

Allen and Locker [ 39] found that the discriminant, predictive and concurrent validity of OHIP was only moderately improved by weights.

Exceptions were constructs containing Rab-C12, bivalent or biparatopic, which did not, or in some cases, only moderately improve neutralization.

As chromoendoscopy with Lugol staining only moderately improves the diagnostic accuracy of video-endoscopy (Meyer et al, 1997) in oesophageal squamous cell neoplasia, we applied Lugol chromoendoscopy only to assess the mucosal extension of early neoplastic lesions and to search for any additional neoplastic foci.

As a consequence of the impact on responses for traits 1 and 2, the efficiency of the genomic breeding scheme in improving the breeding goal was only moderately affected by the number of litters with candidates, and remained much greater than for BL_ref in all cases (Table  2).