Fraser McKevitt, retail analyst at Kantar, said: "Grocery market growth slipped slightly indicating that brighter economic prospects are yet to be seen in the nation's shopping trolleys.
Demand for short-term Treasury bills, regarded as the safest assets around, rose slightly, indicating a small downturn in investor confidence.
The percentage of antibiotics sales made up by the most potent antibiotics remained steady or in some cases increased slightly, indicating an increase in the amount of so-called critically important antibiotics used.
While Fannie Mae reported $6.4 billion in "core profits" from its existing portfolio of mortgages, its net assets actually fell slightly, indicating that many of the new mortgages it had bought during the year would not be as profitable as the ones they replaced.
The concentration of sodium increased very slightly, indicating that it is not bioremediated/removed and that there are some minor evapotranspirative effects.
In the region near the wall, however, the velocity fluctuates slightly, indicating the effect of the deformation of the isolation tool.
EDWth, however, increased slightly, indicating a small reduction in diastolic filling that could not be detected by the biplane Simpson method.
In (E), after 15 years the visibility drops slightly, indicating that players with very long professional career no longer benefit from career longevity.
With increasing Sn content of the anode, the performances of the cells fed with H2 and dry methane both decrease slightly, indicating a reduced anodic catalytic activity.
Lactic acid bacteria increased at 50 °C during 1-d fermentation whereas the number of total viable bacteria only increased slightly, indicating that lactic acid bacteria in sludge at 50 °C were preferentially able to utilize the sucrose for producing lactic acid.
