Sentence examples for slightly relative to from inspiring English sources

But it has increased slightly relative to the college-age population.

But over the longer term, it has fallen slightly relative to the gross domestic product, and substantially relative to other types of government spending.

When assembled, the pins are a free fit in the bushings and rotate slightly, relative to the bushings, when the chain goes onto and leaves a sprocket.

Most people earning less than $100,000 a year would end up gaining slightly relative to current policy, especially if they were eligible for the expanded earned-income tax credit.

The average net prices student pay, considering all the grant aid they get, have declined at public colleges and risen very slightly relative to general inflation at private colleges over the past decade.

The latitudinal libration of the Moon occurs because its axis is tilted slightly, relative to the plane of its orbit around the Earth; this makes the Moon's north and south poles apparently alternate in tipping slightly toward the Earth as the Moon moves through its orbit.

Unfortunately, this particular screen is slow to redraw, somewhat pale and slightly shrunken relative to a standard Palm screen, making its tiny text tough to read.

On T1-weighted images it appears isointense or slightly hypointense (Figs. 3A and 4B), and on T2-weighted images isointense or slightly hyperintense relative to normal hepatic parenchyma (Figs. 3B and 4C)[ 55, 67, 73 76 ].

They showed a hypointense signal on T1-weighted images that was slightly hyperintense relative to CSF, and a hyperintense signal on T2-weighted images that was either isointense or slightly hypointense relative to CSF.

They said fourth-quarter 2000 revenues would be flat to slightly down relative to the third and earnings would be comparable.

However, the direction of the molecules in each layer is slightly twisted relative to the layer below so that multiple layers of molecules stack up to form a helix, a bit like a spiral staircase.