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Simple sentences
His pride was slightly touched.
I'm slightly worried about Tom.
Tom sounded slightly panicked.
Tom doesn't mind Mary being slightly overweight.
The ball slightly curved.
I always buy a top quality product even if it is slightly more expensive.
The tower leaned slightly to the left.
Three persons were killed and ten were severely or slightly injured in the railway accident.
The diameter of the hole was slightly larger.
My wife's hands are slightly smaller than the shop assistant's.
She was slightly better yesterday.
I was slightly surprised.
When I regained my senses, it seemed that fur had grown on my fingers and knees. When it became slightly brighter, I looked at my reflection in a mountain stream, and I realized that I had become a tiger.
The party is improving slightly in the polls.
The road here elevates slightly.
Tom is slightly under the weather today.
Tom has been waiting for slightly over an hour.
I'm slightly hungry.
But his name is slightly familiar to me.
The food tasted slightly of garlic.
Ten people were slightly injured in the accident.
You may be right, but we have a slightly different opinion.
I know her slightly.
It's slightly windy.
Latest census data shows that the total population of the country is slightly above 7 million people.
Is there any place that could help me even slightly?
Movie subtitles
Then, he gets home, slightly hung over.
I got away with heading the conga line at Margaret's wedding, but I think nuns will expect a slightly more decorous father-daughter dance.
Or perhaps some slightly fried pansies or, better still, stuffed shirts.
He was black in color and limped slightly with his left foot.
I presume you are one of the gentlemen slightly, shall we say, battered by the war?
War generation, slightly soiled, a study in the bittersweet, the man with the twisted smile, and this, Mr. Femm, is exceedingly good gin.
Let's say slightly exaggerated.
Slightly.
Mrs. Alison is slightly injured.
It sold slightly over 600 copies. lt cost the publisher a great deal of money.
I'm slightly out of voice.
This time next week. I shall be a slightly sunburnt offering on an altar in Hanover Square.
In a slightly larger quantity, of course, it induces madness.
If these aren't up to my usual standards.. youmustremember I'm slightly out of practice.
The Dutch part of the map looks sharper than the Australian part, because of the slightly different methods of calculation used.
I can't help but think if things had gone slightly differently this semester. that might have been me in there.
Maybe some well-done butterflies, slightly fried pansies, or, better still, stuffed shirts.
At my last college, it was slightly different. I was flat on my back.
Hoy old pal, that's nice to hear from someone, even though you are slightly simple-minded. Thank you.
We are so accustomed to the wonderful character actor Henry Travers being cast as a whimsical, bemused benign person, often slightly eccentric, that it's curious here to see him playing seemingly straight and sombre.
Why, yes, slightly.
Rocks, may I remark that your jokes are slightly unhumorous tonight?
Of course, I haven't practiced the leopard cry in a long time. I'm slightly out of voice.
This time next week, I shall be a slightly sunburnt offering on an altar.
Your idea of love and mine are slightly different, Stephen.
You pink them slightly in the arm and shoulder and they boast of having met you.
They're apt to be slightly narrow-minded, these righteous people.
Only slightly.
When Allison's father tells her that she's going to be the leader of her family, I think she's probably slightly intimidated by that, but also, I think, a little challenged.
I'd expected a slightly warmer welcome, but. point taken.
He was only slightly, madam.
I am slightly disgusted and very disappointed.
You sound slightly bitter.
The young editor had a slightly bitter mind.
They were only slightly burned.
Some banknotes are slightly burnt.
The well must be placed slightly elevated, so surface water flows from the well.
Want to buy some illusions slightly used?
But it would be slightly more difficult to pull off now, though, don't you think?
News and current affairs
Air safety is slightly different, because a crashing plane can kill people on the ground, but the greatest risks by far are borne by the passengers and crew.
Regional VAT rates might be increased slightly if expenditure restraint is not sufficient to offset the loss of tariff revenues due to the customs union.
In August, the currency's exchange-rate regime was loosened slightly.
In 2010, inflation in some of the crisis countries lagged slightly behind that of their eurozone competitors.
After many years of contraction, investment in construction also will rise slightly.
Indeed, even German unemployment, which has been rising in cycles since 1970, will decline slightly in 2006, from 4.8 to 4.7 million.
That means that both parties increasingly defend the interests of the rich, though Republicans do so slightly more than Democrats.
Since the mid-1990's, the relative decline in employment in these countries has, indeed, been slightly reversed.
Slightly apart from these are the new social sciences, which deal with humans and societies.
Likewise, global warming will probably slightly increase malaria, but CO2 reductions will be far less effective at fighting this disease than mosquito nets and medication, which can cheaply save 850,000 lives every year.
Perhaps, after the first brutal generation of democratic rule, a slightly more moral society will arise and the Pope's words will be recalled from a distance.
Over the last year, partly reflecting past policies in these countries, the imbalances have shown signs of stabilizing and, indeed, even of improving slightly.
Credit default swaps (CDS) of major southern European banks trade slightly lower than the CDS of their sovereign states, indicating that the market does not perceive the latter as able to support the former.
The situation is only slightly better in science.
A slightly revised version of that legislation remains in force.
Bachmann, on the other hand, is portrayed as being slightly unhinged.
For example, it is frequently said that the average household income has risen only slightly, or not at all, for the past few decades.
The average life expectancy of Russian men, slightly below 60, is more African than European (or even Asian, for the most part).
They are only slightly positive in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
The lessons of earlier battles against inflation are clear on one fundamental point: inflationary pressures cannot be contained by negative, or slightly positive, real short-term interest rates.
They should be unified throughout the region. Regional VAT rates might be increased slightly if expenditure restraint is not sufficient to offset the loss of tariff revenues due to the customs union.
In 1929, there were slightly more than two billion people living on the planet; today, there are 6.7 billion, and in 2050 there will be nine billion.
In Tunisia, the average fertility rate has dropped from 6.2 in the 1970s to 2.3 today, just slightly above the 2.0 average in the US.