The 2000s saw a slight economic boom to the city.
"There is only a slight difference between boom and boomerang," Volker Jung, president of Bitkom, the German technology industry association, said at Cebit's opening ceremony.
But then there was "a little slight pause and then it was like boom, boom, boom, boom, a lot of continuous gun shots," he said.
At occurrences of even slight interest, a forest of boom mikes converged, while video cameras pointed here and there promiscuously.
It is a landmark ruling, but not one that helps to clarify the legal situation of Istanbul's unstoppable building boom in the slightest.
"Bit by bit, it's a hit, it's a hit!" founder Kim Dotcom booms in a slight accent that hints at his German roots.
An almost imperceptible adjustment of the feet, a slight incline to the left and, boom, a picture-perfect right hand delivered to Pacquiao's chin.
That risk may have seemed slight when the securitization market was booming.
Hopes that a German property boom will unleash spending are slight, however.
We experience a slight frisson of something when our feet boom on the floor of Corten steel.
