Sentence examples for slightly versus from inspiring English sources

Nielsen ratings show that the audiences for local television newscasts in 2012 declined, albeit slightly, versus the prior year.

"We believe that full-year 2002 industry operating performance will improve slightly versus 2001," said Mark Lomanno, the president of Smith Travel Research.

We expect like for like sales to remain muted owing to a tough consumer backdrop and the lack of an ecommerce offer, however we have raised them slightly versus easy comparisons.

Net margins were down slightly — 6.3%, versus 6.4%.

In fact, starting from the consideration that the damping factors and the frequencies of spectral components in power system applications are slightly variable versus time [25,39-43], thestimationof ofrequencieses is conducted only a few times, and the damping factors are assumed to be constant along the entire signal to be analyzed [31,32].

"We will end up seeing US upfront total spend being slightly down versus a year ago," OMD US CEO Monica Karo tells Beet.TV.

Despite the investigator's ability to adjust concomitant non-biologic DMARD/immunosuppressive, corticosteroid and/or NSAID treatment starting at week 52, the proportions of patients taking these medications and the mean doses at week 104 were generally similar or slightly lower versus baseline (tables 2 and 3).

The child health outcome was defined as a binary variable indicating a women's perspective on whether or not an illness had to be severe (either very serious or somewhat serious versus slightly serious or non-serious) for her to bring her under-five child to a health facility.

For the other subscales, role-physical, general health and role-emotional, adjusted R2 was slightly lower (0.2 versus 0.3; 0.20 versus 0.21; and 0.16 versus 0.15, respectively).

The study participants who dropped out were slightly older (83 versus 81 yr), and were more often male (20 versus 15%) and living in nursing homes (23 versus 14%).

The emotional well-being scale, for which comparative population figures were readily available, was distributed with the same median (80) as the national norms, although in our sample, mean value was slightly greater (78 versus 74) and standard deviation smaller (15 versus 20) than the available population values (Aalto et al., 2013).