Word: slightly
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...only girl on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. "She was shorter than Harry by about a head, and Harry couldn't help noticing, nervous as he was, that she was extremely pretty. She smiled at Harry as the teams faced each other behind their captains, and he felt a slight lurch in the region of his stomach that he didn't think had anything to do with nerves...
...There [is] a momentary sort of quiet as they take it in," he said. "There is always a slight pause. The name carries an image and a tremendous amount of weight...
...Frosh Weekend, 60 to 70 2003-ers had heard, via word-of-mouth, of the eGroup. At PreFrosh, many of us met in person for the first time, solidifying what were slight acquaintances into strong friendships. By the end of this past summer, almost 200 incoming first-years had subscribed. Virtually everyone has heard of or knows someone in the eGroup...
Such souped-up plants are understandably popular with farmers, for whom even a slight increase in yield can mean a big increase in profits. Last year in the U.S., 35% of the soy crop and 42% of the cotton crop were grown with GM seeds. Says Karen Marshall, a Monsanto spokeswoman: "These really do work and have tremendous benefits to growers...
Vaccines, of course, aren't without risk. A slight possibility always exists that those containing live but weakened viruses--oral polio, measles and mumps vaccines, for example--could trigger the disease they're intended to prevent. And a few vaccines originally thought to be safe have caused side effects so severe in a small percentage of inoculated children that they've had to be modified or temporarily withdrawn...