slight improvement

collocation in English

meaningsofslightandimprovement

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slight
adjective
uk
/slaɪt/us
/slaɪt/
small in amount ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition ofslightandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofslight improvement

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More improvement was seen during the first year of follow-up, followed byslightimprovementduring the second year.
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Following aslightimprovementduring the 1840s, life expectation at birth increased to 34 in the 1850s, but remained static in the 1860s.
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Aslightimprovementis evident for a similar question on payments to government officials to affect the content of government decrees.
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The best 2-variable models were aslightimprovementon the best 1-variable models.
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The results indicate aslightimprovementin parsing performance for the initial grammar, which is, for the most part, maintained under compaction.
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At this time, an echocardiogram showed aslightimprovementof left ventricular function.
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This algorithm offers only aslightimprovementover the straightforward 'guess-and-check' algorithm.
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Work with older people was least popular - with aslightimprovementover time.
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When two options are exactly as good, aslightimprovement(worsening) in one option makes it better (worse) than the other.
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As a last,slightimprovementwe have the following corollary.
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Next the +det optimization provides aslightimprovementin most cases.
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There was aslightimprovementof these scores at day 35 whatever the treatment taken, but without a difference between the groups.
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Surprisingly, perhaps, aslightimprovementin the standard of nutrition occurred during the war years possibly because of full employment of women as well as men.
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There was aslightimprovement, to about 800,000, in 1960, which is the last available year.
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That is surely aslightimprovement.
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There has been someslightimprovementin the last half year.
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There is aslightimprovementbut the principle of the anomaly remains with us.
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These men have got no increase at all, and while there is aslightimprovementin the new rates of pay of the engineering-lieutenant.
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