| A slighter top is made with thinner pieces such as larch poles, and the whole is planted with free growing climbers. |
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| Rich looks slighter than I remember, and he is sounding bad, coughing chestily into his fist. |
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| If you were to put him to a cob mare you would get a slighter sort of foal. |
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| But he and Congress are both stuck in the mire of health-care reform, so the chances of progress in time for Copenhagen grow slighter by the day. |
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| But Mr Blair's domestic policy achievements are slighter and more fragile than hers. |
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| The downside to this commitment to agility is a slighter firmer ride than other, more luxury-focused competitors. |
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| There is a slighter higher percentage of women in specialty positions than in general practice. |
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| By reducing the SCR for the same expected return or even for a lower one but in a slighter proportion. |
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| Among countries, the universe of compliance-enforcing tools is slighter, more contentious and divisive, and usually less efficacious. |
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| The effects of the war in Iraq on European service providers were slighter than had been feared. |
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| Indeed, a wind rose of the area shows these two directions to be predominant, with westerly having a slighter greater frequency than easterly. |
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| He had seen grubby, cantankerous men reduced to pitiableness by slighter but nevertheless relentless syndromes, the same shovelled out eye-sockets. |
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| As far as dose is concerned, the impact on the population and environment is far slighter than that of natural radioactivity. |
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| The publications and our Magazine, always there, are illuminating and represent our dream to make slighter our march. |
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| No one can say what the encounters between that low-browed, herculean species and their slighter but formidable successors were like. |
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| Lord is slighter of build, and smooth-shaven, and his straight blond hair falls across his forehead. |
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| Due to its high total Q factor the driver may also be built into considerably bigger cabinets, enabling a slighter lower bass. |
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| A slighter larger version with no mosaic on the drawer and a diferent handle. |
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| John Kelsey is 47, taller and slighter and shier, with cropped hair and a tendency to withdraw under his baseball cap. |
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| The essential difference with respect to the 2-way pilot is that a medium does not flow through the pilot in an open switch position and thus there is a much slighter risk of clogged control bores due to dirty media. |
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| The neighboring series, fraud, breach of trust and embezzlement shows somewhat the same discordant pattern between a sharp drop in acts counted and a slighter drop in suspects. |
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| The other options would be slighter less costly. |
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| But his chances of hearing his work adequately presented in a concert hall are probably slighter than those of his contemporaries in Western Europe or in the rest of the Americas. |
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| There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher. |
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