Sentence examples for merely a slight from inspiring English sources

When that period passes, Pearson will be seen to have suffered merely a slight hiccup.

That left Siegfried Jerusalem, who was singing his first Siegfried in a Met "Gotterdammerung". Mr. Jerusalem, too, had been announced as indisposed - a throat infection - but at first that meant merely a slight huskiness when he pushed for volume.

All acted in the movie and contributed to the screenplay, transforming what might otherwise have been merely a slight but likable comedy into the D.I.Y. equivalent of a rock 'n' roll supergroup: the mumblecore Asia.

The most substantive measure he announced — the additional police officers — was merely a slight increase in the already exceptional security that has been in place under an emergency decree, which has allowed the police to conduct more than a thousand raids around the country in pursuit of domestic threats.

But that was dismissed by the Department of Health and local authorities, who said there was merely a slight delay in certain areas waiting for new supplies of the drug, Cervarix, after the batch of the vaccine given to Morton were quarantined as a precautionary measure.

Of course, the market hasn't undergone a sea change, merely a slight evolution.

But he merely gave a slight smile and shrugged his shoulders, preserving his 35-year vow of silence.

In contrast, mechanical degradation merely causes a slight ordering of the morphology and a marginal increase in water uptake due to bulk water residing in membrane cracks formed by fatigue-fracture.

I cheated and used the U.S. Navy's online sunrise and sunset calculator (ignoring the year, of course, which merely causes a slight cyclical variation): at Rome, the shortest day of the year is 9h08m long, 5/12 of which is our hour angle H: 3.81 equinoctial hours, or 57°05.

For some or many genes, HBc may merely mediate a slight modulation of the transcriptional activity.

Here, pinocembrin merely produced a slight increase in the effectiveness of the antioxidant defense system of hBMECs when subjected to fA β1 40.