Sentence examples for only slightly superior from inspiring English sources

When the battle was joined on September 10, Perry's fleet was greatly superior in short-range firepower but only slightly superior at long range; a light wind prevented him from closing in quickly on the six British warships commanded by R.H. Barclay.

The LSCF film exhibits exceptional electrode performance with area specific resistance values of 0.021 and 0.065 Ω cm2 at 650 and 600 °C respectively, whereas LSCF CGO composite is only slightly superior than pure LSCF below 450 °C.

Although the addition of a nanoalumina and nanomagnesia mixture ensured the best results regarding to the expansive behavior, thermo-mechanical and thermo-chemical properties, its performance was only slightly superior to the castable containing micrometric alumina and magnesia particles.

They led also to substantial reductions in the standard errors of the estimates of both population numbers of individuals and total basal area, with Method 2 only slightly superior in this regard to Method 1. Table 2 Results, in the same form as Table 1, from 50,000 simulations of inventory of the squarely arranged population of individual trees illustrated in Fig. 1b.

In terms of speed this class of ships was inferior to several preceding classes, and was only slightly superior to the Illinois class which was laid down in 1896.

On average, new treatments are only slightly superior to old ones: a finding explained by the equipoise hypothesis, which suggests that the requirement for uncertainty in clinical trials is what drives the RCT system, but which also predicts that new treatments are not very likely to be much more successful than the established ones [11], [29], [30].

" Model training for late rejection" using stream I. Figure  21 shows that performance on the training sets is superior, but only slightly.

For example, although the current Honda Civic, a compact car, is about the same size as the company's midsize Accord from 1998, it is in almost every respect far superior and sells for only slightly more than the earlier Accord.

"Madam", usually contracted to "Ma'am" was for high superiors.Such rules softened only slightly in subsequent years.

Its hardness is only slightly smaller than, but its chemical stability is superior, to that of diamond.

Only the NP2 with the clip WATERFALL achieves a slightly superior mean value of 4.58 in comparison with our 4.29 mean opinion score.