Sentence examples for slightly spurious from inspiring English sources

The role is slightly spurious.

8 Euro 2012 football tournament begins, offering host nations Poland and Ukraine a slightly spurious opportunity – but who are we to talk in Olympics year?

This being the Obama White House, the second of these came with a slightly spurious estimate of the contribution to the economy made by winged pollinators ($24 billion, or about a third of Amazon's yearly revenue).

Tony Hiss, author of "In Motion: The Experience of Travel," said that while the grid contributes orderliness, "I still think it distances us from our natural surroundings, and it has given us a slightly spurious and diminished mental geometry".

The Orpheus legend is utterly central to how opera emerged at the close of the Italian Renaissance and to the way its first pioneers tried to justify its existence as a revival of ancient Greek sung drama (a slightly spurious claim).

Avengers Assemble is about a team of unlikely superpowered demigods, The Dark Knight Rises will be about an equally outlandish masked vigilante with rather too much money and time on his hands and Prometheus is about a slightly spurious search for extra-terrestrial life.

This causes mirrors and mountings to vibrate slightly, again creating spurious signals.

A local implementation of GeneMark-ES (exon.gatech.edu, last accessed December 19, 2014; Ter-Hovhannisyan et al. 2008) generated a much more reasonable gene set (8,612 "raw" CDS; as reported by Forgetta et al. 2013) which only had to be slightly trimmed to remove spurious genes with total exon size of less than 100 bp (8,525 final "model" CDS).

This method also confirmed that 1 band of slightly different mobility was a spurious amplicon.

Because heterozygotes tend to have slightly higher coverage than homozygotes of both classes, spurious relationships between genotype and gene expression levels are much less likely to be observed when both types of homozygotes are well represented (i.e., MAFs are larger).

Furthermore, the alignment edit distance could be relaxed slightly (option –n 0.03) with no apparent increase in spurious hits.