"in slightly over" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you are referring to an amount of time that is greater than the expected or estimated amount of time. For example, "We finished the project in slightly over a month."
He pitched in a transitional era, when closers began to be expected to pitch only a single inning; although Smith and Goose Gossage each pitched in slightly over 1,000 games, Gossage ended his career with over 500 more innings.
Joseph L. Bruno, the Republican majority leader of the Senate, predicted today that the budget, the main business of Albany, would be completed in slightly over a week.
So she ran the marathon in Columbus, Ohio, in slightly over four hours, high for her, and later submitted to the amputation, and her life changed drastically.
The battery option with the highest performance gave an acceleration of 0 to 60 miles (96 km) per hour in slightly over 4 seconds and a top speed of 130 miles (209 km) per hour.
The communication between a target and an offender is mentioned in slightly over half of the definitions (n = 62 and n = 64).
Performing both cardiac output and diastolic measurements increased the time with bedside ultrasound by 6 min and 25 s, and were able to be obtained in slightly over half of all ED patients.
"We're not on that level," says Kaler, "but when I first started doing dame, someone gave me a book on Leno and I thought – this is exactly what I've been doing!" His voice, redolent of an older, plummier tradition, rises in slightly over-egged disbelief.
To gain a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in soil excavations, centrifuge model tests of deep excavations in slightly over-consolidated soft clay have been carried out using a newly developed testing system, in which the construction sequence of a multi-propped wall for deep excavations can be simulated in flight.
The 10 works in his solid if slightly over-hung first show mix these elements in different ways, which is promising.
I don't think it happened on purpose at all, but it did seem that a lot of writers piled in and kicked Naomi Wolf's "Vagina" to death in a slightly over-the-top manner.
By Anthony Giardina She makes her entrance, most often, in a slightly over-the-top hat, and you can be forgiven your first reaction: this is the love interest?
