The phrase "somewhat slim" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is not fully slim, but is still relatively slim. It adds a degree of moderation or limitation to the adjective "slim." Example: "She was somewhat slim, but not as thin as her sister."
Although the article is somewhat slim on facts, it is significant that a political newspaper should give it such prominence.
By focusing on the somewhat slim chance that Roe v. Wade could soon be overturned, Mr. Corzine appeals to the overwhelming majority of New Jerseyans who support a basic right to abortion, with or without new restrictions.
A devout Catholic, Eddie goes to confession seemingly every day, and the private sins that he avows seem somewhat slim compared with the flagrant fouls of his daily (and nightly) labors — the lies, bribes, threats, and even violence with which he oils the mighty machinery of movies and keeps it running unimpeded and unexamined.
A devout Catholic, Eddie goes to confession seemingly every day, and the private sins that he avows seem somewhat slim compared with the flagrant fouls of his daily (and nightly) labors the lies, bribes, threats, and even violence with which he oils the mighty machinery of movies and keeps it running unimpeded and unexamined.
The chances that you'll run into someone with an RFID chip in their hand today are still somewhat slim.
"The chances of getting caught, in a sense, in the realm of digital information seem to me somewhat slim … but you don't want to be the poster child for enforcement," she says.
Barbour is somewhat slimmer and considerably nicer than Christie.
She has helped write two mystery novels with a political twist that sketch the life of a freshman senator from Pennsylvania who Ms. Mikulski has called a "somewhat younger, somewhat slimmer, but no less politically savvy" version of herself.
After getting paid $18.5 million in 2005, Gemunder's 2007 take was a somewhat slimmer $12.5 million.
Turns out, large dinos like Tyrannosaurus rex and the lumbering sauropods might have been somewhat slimmer than previously believed.
