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Discover LudwigThe phrase "slightly junior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who holds a lower rank or position compared to another person, but with a connotation of being only a little less experienced or lower in status. Example: "In our department, Sarah is slightly junior to Mark, having joined the team just a few months after him."
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For pilots, relative seniority is paramount in mergers, and it appears Delta pilots may be only slightly junior, on average, to United's pilots.
On one of the most contentious issues, out of hours pay, the proposal to reclassify Saturdays and weekday evenings as ordinary working hours, with no extra pay, has been amended slightly, Junior doctors will work an average 40 to 48 hour week, with a new 72 hour limit on any week, Mr Hunt said.
Mrs Gove – Sarah Vine – wrote an "intensely personal" Mail account of her "torture at watching my husband choose between his beliefs and his old friend the PM" at a Johnson dinner party in Islington (with Evgeny Lebedev, a slightly junior mogul), tucking in to roast lamb while Boris and Michael discussed sovereignty on speakerphone to Cameron Central.
This rehabilitation of Sidgwickian hedonism has also involved a recognition of the importance of the hedonimetrics of F. Y. Edgeworth, the brilliant economist who was a slightly junior contemporary of Sidgwick's and one of his most enthusiastic philosophical disciples, though one whose work has until recently been largely ignored in philosophical commentary on Sidgwick (Edgeworth, 1877 and 2003).
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Situated between the historic Lloyd Street Synagogue and its slightly more junior former rival, B'nai Israel, the entire complex is a tribute to what once was.
In opposition, he shadowed as pensions secretary and chief secretary to the Treasury before beginning in government in the slightly more junior role of transport minister as the coalition deal gave the Lib Dems his old post.
Except, actually, we did – while every series of the original competition seems to last for years, the celebrity edition is always slightly embarrassing, and the junior variant aimed at kids, The Professionals rapidly established itself as the one worth watching.
That puts a value of ¥3 trillion or so on the junior partner, slightly more than investors had expected, and should put paid to any lingering chance that Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), which made a rival offer for UFJ last August, will be able to block the deal.
The Brazilian held off Ricciardo on a poor weekend for Red Bull, who were only slightly faster than their junior team Toro Rosso.
Using profitability as the primary performance measure, the study identifies the following outcomes: First, senior managers of a store with a higher proportion of part-time staff made more adjustments and attained slightly higher profitability than junior managers, when all employees accepted adjusted schedules.
FOR decades, the average Latino immigrant has had slightly more than a junior-high school education.
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