Example sentences of "[be] slightly [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The liver is the one organ in the abdomen in which MRI has been shown to be slightly better than computed tomography in the detection of focal lesions . |
| 2 | The income er , the laboratory you can see last year ma made a surfeit of seventy five thousand pounds , the budgetary purchases we always assume the laboratory will simply cover its expenditure , in reality we hope they will be slightly better than that and they generally do . |
| 3 | Although the latter may be slightly cheaper than sateen , it may not have the same draping quality . |
| 4 | The chair looks better to me if the seat is wider at the front than at the back , but the front of the seat should only be slightly wider than the top of the back . |
| 5 | Position the track at least 220 cm high and allow for it to be slightly wider than the headboard . |
| 6 | The jaws appear to be slightly wider than long . |
| 7 | A three-door hatchback car may be more practical for the patient , because the front doors tend to be slightly bigger than in four-door cars , and there is plenty of room for the wheelchair in the back . |
| 8 | This should be slightly bigger than the piece to be worked . |
| 9 | We wanted to build a pyramid that was going to be slightly bigger than the biggest pyramid in Egypt . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's statistics suggest the trade gap will be slightly bigger than expected this year , mainly due to recession among some of Britain 's key trading partners , notably Germany . |
| 11 | In the evening , body temperature is being reduced and so tends to be slightly higher than required . |
| 12 | The ground level appeared to be slightly higher than he remembered and there was no sign of the seven semi-circular steps leading up to the front door . |
| 13 | Rectal CSA values in women showed a tendency to be slightly higher than in men . |
| 14 | In the morning , body temperature is being raised and so it tends to be slightly lower than required . |
| 15 | Gross sugar production for 1989 was expected to be slightly lower than in the previous year , at 614,220 tonnes compared with 672,087 tonnes . |
| 16 | The inner edge of the turning will be slightly larger than the curtain it rests against , so it will be necessary to make tucks periodically along the edge so that the turning will lie flat . |
| 17 | It should be slightly larger than the Renault 5 . |
| 18 | The inner section will probably be slightly shorter than the outside sections , but this is due to the overall length of the saddle in relation to the size of the pickup and string spacing . |
| 19 | The jaw appear to be slightly longer than wide . |
| 20 | Their instinct is to try to hide this for fear of being thought weak or inadequate , and this , in part , contributes to the fact that although their overall experience of the distress of bereavement may be slightly less than that of widows , many men take longer to recover fully . |
| 21 | The total value of a player 's army may be slightly less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 22 | It is important to remember , therefore , when comparing returns on short-term instruments that a rate of discount will always be slightly less than the rate of interest giving the corresponding reward . |
| 23 | Banks , and eventually borrowers , had the advantage that the rate of interest they paid for the deposit would be slightly less than that on a conventional time deposit . |
| 24 | Growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) for 1990 was expected to be slightly less than the 9.2 per cent of 1989 . |
| 25 | Although the harvest yield was expected to be slightly less than in 1989 , buoyant world prices meant that the growers were likely to reap record payments . |
| 26 | Both turned out to be slightly more than required . |
| 27 | More of the girls , who tended on average to be slightly younger than the boys , were still at school . |
| 28 | Another cohort study has found that pill users tend to be slightly lighter than non-users . |
| 29 | Judges who sit in the Crown Court tend to be slightly older than magistrates on average ( around 60 for judges and 56 for lay justices ) . |
| 30 | One parent families tend to be slightly smaller than two parent families with an average of just under two children , compared to just over two children per family . |