Sentence examples for take up slightly from inspiring English sources

For instance, before you confront the dastardly men who take up slightly too much space on public transportation, you might want to deal with how insane your country gets over a single glimpse of armpit hair on a woman.

Both took up slightly different measures.

But here's another stunning fact to cap off your day: The Internet, for all its moving pieces, takes up slightly less physical space than your average oil tanker.

The new dugouts took up slightly more room than the previous ones, resulting in a minor contraction of the field's dimensions: 327 feet (100 m) down the left and right field lines, 371 feet (113 m) to left and right-center fields, and 400 feet (120 m) to center field.

The pygidium takes up slightly more than one third of the total length of the trunk.

There are eight 101 double-stranded helices of the right-handed and left-handed senses in the unit cell, which take up a slightly complicated hexagonal-like closest packing-mode, and where among the first six neighbour helices the two same-handed senses are located at z = c2 and the four opposite-handed senses are located at z = c4 and 3c4.

The main thing I want to do is to introduce ideas into the public discourse which then people who are deemed to be respectable can take up in a slightly quieter fashion".

Combined the powder/extract should take up the same or slightly less space than the Vaseline.

When he reviewed David Chang's new restaurant in Los Angeles, Majordomo, his thoughts on the cooking took up only slightly more space than his partial history of his dealings with Mr. Chang.

But the aggregate land occupied by the Cook Islands takes up only slightly more space than the District of Columbia, most of it spread across 15 humps scattered across the South Pacific between New Zealand and Hawaii.

Next week, the Senate takes up a slightly different version of the bill.