Sentence examples for slightly continental from inspiring English sources

Over 400 barbers and hairdressers quizzed on the hope of finding the distinctive reddish hair; 260 tailors who might have sold the odd, slightly continental suit.

This major current system is a western boundary current that flows poleward along a boundary separating the warm and more saline waters of the Sargasso Sea to the east from the colder, slightly fresher continental slope waters to the north and west.

A few species suggest that it might have been slightly more continental, than today.

Seasonal courses of air temperature and precipitation at Gollin (data not shown) are highly similar to Kratzeburg, though the climate is slightly more continental (i.e. higher temperature and lower precipitation amounts).

Copper sharks can be found from the surf zone to slightly beyond the continental shelf in the open ocean, diving to depths of 100 m or more.

Britain can make a similar, if slightly weaker, boast, while continental European economies are at last reviving.

About 60 inscriptions from Norway date from the 5th to the 8th century, slightly later than the continental ones.

With 175 million people, it is the world's fifth most populous nation, and its territory is slightly larger than the continental United States.

Their country — geographically slightly larger than the continental United States — is on a roll, enjoying robust economic growth and preparing to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016.

Religiosity and low education only slightly influence disbelief in continental drift.

Unusually high are also the caesium, barium and tungsten contents, while vanadium is only slightly elevated relative to the mean continental crust (table 2).