Sentence examples for slight slippage from inspiring English sources

There was slight slippage, to $3,003, by midyear 2001.

Such slight slippage does not constitute a trend.

Slight slippage of the second liquid at the slider surface further reduces the shear stress by a few times.

Stony Point, "a community of smaller, older homes," Ms. Garti said, had an average price of $255,637, "a slight slippage" from $256,618 in 1999.

Furnished Quarters, a three-year-old local firm, is reporting a slight slippage in its occupancy rate from 97percentt last year to 95percentthis yearar.

Therefore, the arms do need to strictly keep contacting with the ground all the time, slight slippage and off the ground are acceptable, and these will be adjust in next control periods.

Hearing the slight slippages, the moments when Ms. Dessay loses vocal color for a note or two, one can't help remembering that she canceled her scheduled Zerbinetta in the Met's "Ariadne auf Naxos" this spring because of vocal fatigue, so it may be fortunate that this particular piece of French singing, Ms. Dessay's contribution to the Mozart canon, has been preserved.

But there were slight slippages of tone — moments when the core of his sound would waver — that prevented the melodic line from being ideally smooth, a problem in long-phrased works like Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's "Romance," for violin and piano (which, while stylish, had little connection to the East-West theme).

"I think there is a little slippage," Van Gundy said.

But painful humiliation can be a matter of accumulated small slights and slippages as much as dramatic exclusion from the social body.

White evangelical Christians were the only group showing slight signs of slippage in exit polls.