The study also found a slight gain in the fertility rate.

Most other main line parties could log slight gains or a result comparable with the previous election.

By the 12th, the slight gains achieved were lost to counterattacks.

Middle income students experience slight gains in reading performances.

A slight smile from me, a moment of hair reorganising, and he was straight over.

A humble knowing nod with a slight smile as they arrive will say it all.

When you meet someone face to face, there's more chemistry, body language and subtle nuances - the twitch of an eye or slight smile.

She gives a very slight smile.

Her lips are curved in a slight smile of self-confidence, and her eyes are alight.

After a collapse, teams have a slight tendency to improve but rarely to their original position.

The sutures are narrowly impressed, with a rather wide margin below them, which often shows a slight tendency to be tuberculate.

The upper side of the last whorl has about nine revolving beaded ribs with a slight tendency to run in pairs, beginning at the periphery.

These showed a wide ring of faint white light circling the moon, with a slight tinge of red on the inside edge of the ring.

This form has a slight tinge of green in the pectoral yellow tufts.

Underside: white with a slight tinge of blue.

I started to notice a slight tremor in my hands and couldn't always focus my eyes at work.

There's a slight tremor on the fingerboard, the bow a harbinger of difficult news.

I had a slight tremor of doubt as we arrived.

She noticed a slight tremor in his hand.

The first sign was a sudden, heavy, cracking sound, with only a slight tremor.

I have a slight twist in reference to surveyors.

A slight twist when playing gives you spin, and angling the controller gives you a precision of placement that has never previously been possible.

The dishes here are classics with a slight twist.

With a slight bounce and a slight twist.

Puddings are traditional with a slight twist.

There was a slight uptick in car journeys but all the other metrics continue to be in the right place.

Their relative strength in the preelection period will probably mean a slight uptick in quarterly gross domestic product growth in the second quarter compared with the very weak first.

However, the property crime rate returned to the downward trend begun in the 1990s, after a slight uptick in the previous two years.

There's a slight whiff of making the best of what we can get and of what we can afford.

At various points in my life, a slight whiff of coal-tar soap has sent me rushing back.

Much was so badly written that even today science fiction still carries a slight whiff of its pulp heritage.

On the following spread, there was a cigarette ad, brazen as you like, with not the slightest suggestion of a health warning.

There's not the slightest suggestion it's all a bit embarrassing.

And those policies have to be pursued with an unswerving determination to avoid the slightest suggestion of news manipulation.

It calls attention to the opportunistic glibness of the experts' testimony - without, however, supplying the slightest suggestion of an adequate explanation for his crime.

None of which has left the slightest trace on my memory.

Dozens of search-and-rescue professionals have been combing the area and helicopters have been deployed with night vision equipment but there has been not the slightest trace.

And still he happily announces their arrival in the world while showing not the slightest trace of discomfort at the absence of a traditional family situation.

What was found was that the bacteria moved quickly away from even the slightest trace of oxygen.

Not the slightest trace remains of the airfield today.