The phrase 'slight support for' is both correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are indicating that an argument or opinion has some, but limited, evidence or approval. For example: "Although there is some slight support for the proposal, the majority view is against it."
The HuffPost Pollster chart of national polling on the Republican nomination race, again based on all public polls including Gallup, shows a slight increase support for Romney and a bigger decline for Santorum over the last two weeks.
Even though the number of nucleotides has been doubled, the only noticeable gain is a slight increased support for the node EUR-AFR/ASIA (pp = 0.66, BP = 47) whereas other relationships, including the position of the root, remained unresolved.
The BSA survey did record a slight increase in support for higher government spending between 2010 and 2011.
Some polls have found a slight softening in support for Mr. Obama and his economic proposals nationally and, potentially more worrisome for Democrats, erosion in battleground states including Ohio.
One of the final opinion polls before the first round of the elections showed a slight fall in support for Mr Hollande's Parti Socialiste.
That rating was accompanied by a sharp drop in approval of his handling of foreign policy, to 54 percent from 68percentt in July, and by slight declines in support for his handling of the economy and the war on terrorism.
Among Republicans, polls published since the Iowa caucus suggest a slight dip in support for Donald Trump, but not enough to make a dent in his considerable lead in the state.
DESPITE all the whirring of helicopter rotor-blades as prominent politicians are ferried to key constituencies and the humming of computer hard drives as new software programs pick out floating voters, the opinion polls have stayed steady since the beginning of the campaign, apart from a slight dip in support for the Conservatives (see chart) and a drift upwards for the Liberal Democrats.
There was a slight fall in support for abolishing the assembly, from 22% last year to 20%.
