Sentence examples for slightly the first from inspiring English sources

The number of cancer deaths in the United States has dropped slightly, the first decline in more than 70 years, the American Cancer Society is reporting today.

In the past year HP's market share increased from 13.8% to 14.9% according to Gartner, a research firm, while Dell's shrank slightly, the first time this has happened since it became one of the chief PC vendors a decade ago.

This is a four-and-a-half-to-five-hour bus ride to Boston for $15" – and then digresses slightly: "The first time I took the Fung Wah, I only brought a copy of Tropic of Cancer along for the ride.

Oil prices jumped nearly $7 on Wednesday before falling back slightly, the fourth consecutive day of wild swings in the crude market.

This response made it necessary for Mr. Benn to rewrite slightly the third book in the series, "Blood Alone," to include more of Uncle Ike.

The second strip should slightly overlap the first, and the third (if used) should slightly overlap the second.

(It had been slightly overcooked the first time).

It slowed slightly during the first two months of the third quarter and then plunged in September.

Last year, the economy is believed to have grown slightly, for the first time in a decade.

Vijay's drive is pulled slightly into the first cut down the left.

"Ah, there's George!" he said, raising his voice slightly for the first time that day.