Sentence examples for slightly boost from inspiring English sources

The fact that he couldn't get a U.S. visa to come to the ceremony may slightly boost the film's chances, but I think that it will win for another reason: Farhadi is a dully confident realist whose films have an overt, even an obvious, element of social critique, psychology by numbers, and no strangeness whatsoever.

Simon Wallace, economist at the Centre for Economic and Business Research, said: "The rise in the RPI and the slightly higher-than-expected monthly consumer price inflation is likely to slightly boost expectations that the Bank of England will have to raise interest rates at least once more this year.

Short term, this may prop up Blockbuster a bit, and may even slightly boost DVD sales.

West Indies beat New Zealand in the Women's World Cup to slightly boost England's chances of making the final.

Although the Senate bill would hold the Office of Science budget flat, it would slightly boost some of the office's six programs and cut others.

Existing "fibrate" drugs, such as Lopid from Pfizer, slightly boost good cholesterol and lower triglycerides (fatty particles in the blood), slashing the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems by 22% in one big study.

Three devices were tested in May and June at Malden, the second one a huge fission bomb, slightly boosted, producing a yield of 720 kilotons.

So even if rebates succeed in slightly boosting consumer spending, the funds for the rebate came from a reduction in spending elsewhere in the economy (probably from private investment).

In order to limit this risk, the prior probability of the query is slightly boosted by the driven decoding algorithm (DDA) [24].

A further comparative study showed that, unlike the case of a solar chimney power plant, a circular blockage a few meters in front of the solar collector entrance barely improved the heat dissipation performance of the hybrid system when exposed to a strong ambient crosswind, however, it slightly boosted its self-power-generation capacity.

The improvement is obtained by slightly boosting the drift component with respect to the diffusion component of the photogenerated current by means of an increase in the p n junction effective area, and consequently in the volume of the depletion layer.