Sentence examples for slight expansion from inspiring English sources

The slight expansion met analysts' expectations.

This is a slight expansion of Vernonia.

Japan's economy did better than thought in the last quarter of 2012, eking out a slight expansion instead of shrinking.

Among the last-minute changes on Thursday was a slight expansion of a tax break for businesses favored by the Senate Republicans who provided crucial votes for the bill.

The I.S.M. Manufacturing Index — a widely watched gauge of factory activity — nudged up in June to 50.2 from 49.6 in May, entering barely positive territory, which indicates a slight expansion.

Maybe there should be a question mark at the end of the title — or, perhaps, a slight expansion paraphrasing Peggy Lee: "Is this all there is?" Touted as brand-new, it's not.

Slight expansions of mountain forests suggest warming during the LG.

For the initial interval of Ω i0 the5, the reconnection pulses as viewed in the equatorial plane propagate both earthward and tailward as relatively laminar structures, with only slight expansions at the duskward and dawnward edges and small enhancements in |B z | at the leading dawnward corners.

Except for a slight midriff expansion, his body is still lean, his face unlined.

Her regular chest X-ray revealed slight lung expansion but was otherwise almost normal.

Furthermore, we recognized a slight lateral expansion of the earthquake alignment in the NNW SSE direction just after the eruption (Fig. 6a).