Sentence examples for slightly instead from inspiring English sources

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To avoid animosity, several readers suggested asking the person in the seat ahead to refrain from reclining or to recline only slightly instead of resorting to extreme measures.

On April 7th health officials provided some help: after proposing in February to cut payments to private Medicare plans by 1.9%, the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said they would rise slightly instead.

It was interesting for the two cases that though with the increase of keypoints' number, the global redundancy number decreased slightly instead of increasing.

That oil companies are building deeper wells which sometimes turn slightly instead of shooting straight down drives markedly higher consumption for Vallourec's high-end drill pipes and oil-line pipes, says Marc Huberty of Fortis Bank in Paris.

However, the temperature decreases slightly instead of showing a monotonical increase; it cannot go over the peak of the radiative cooling function at T ≃ 105 K (Landini and Monsignori-Fossi, 1990) because the radiative loss is efficient, owing to the large density.

By doing this, you can spread the risk a little bit: If you default on a few accounts, both credit scores are only impacted slightly instead of both credit reports taking the full brunt of all of the defaults.

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And we thought we would do something slightly stupid instead.

The only state where different sites show different candidates ahead right now is Florida, where Talking Points Memo gives Mr. Obama a nominal 0.2-percentage point lead while the others (including FiveThirtyEight) have Mr. Romney slightly up instead.

In the face on rising criticism, this year's Black Pete was slightly different: instead of wearing the usual blackface paint, he had black smudges on his cheeks, suggesting his dark complexion came from a journey down the chimney.

Combined, the aftermath of the territorial spat with China will shave 0.8 percentage points off Japan gross domestic product growth for the fourth quarter, sending Japan's overall economy slightly downward, instead of the initial forecast for flat growth, according to JP Morgan.

We wanted to do something slightly different; instead of a still picture, we wanted to use a few seconds of normal moving video, and then stitch them all together to make a time-lapse video.

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