Sentence examples for slight as the from inspiring English sources

Slight as the decrease was, it was the first such decrease in New York hotel room rates in eight years.

It assesses "the risks considered most relevant to the conduct of monetary policy", taking into account the costs should disaster strike, slight as the chance may be.

ALL investigations begin with a tip, a lead, a scrap of information as slight as the seat number passed along by a flight attendant aboard a doomed airliner on Sept. 11.

The violation lasted two seconds at most, and it occurred only because the force of the laser light was minuscule, almost as slight as the force of the water molecules bouncing off the bead.

Indeed, it's not always clear that Rated R even wants you to do that: a song as musically slight as the ballad Stupid In Love seems to exist primarily to excite the listener's prurience.

I could not step past the threshold of a son's room without becoming engulfed in memories, triggered by things as slight as the worn patch on the armchair where my elbow rested while cradling a nursing baby.

Effects of positional accuracy from survey vs. resource grade GPS units were slight, as were the effects of varying plot designs, although errors generally increased when larger basal area factors were used.

The distortion can be very slight, as in the self-lampooning things that some of Pierre's characters say.

LIGO's two detectors -- one in Hanford, Wash., the other in Livingston, La .-- will be able to spot a change as slight as half the width of an atom along the 2.5-mile-long paths traveled by the detectors' laser beams.

As he considered a run last year, still grieving his son's death, Mr. Biden felt slighted as the party establishment fell in line behind Mrs. Clinton, viewing himself as the natural heir to President Obama's legacy.

Of course, none of this matters in the slightest, as The Hustle is basically 3 minutes and 53 seconds of Pos and Trugoy rocking the mic over production by New York stalwarts the Beatminerz.