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词汇 example_english_slight-disadvantage
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slight disadvantage

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meanings of slightand disadvantage


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slight
adjective
uk /slaɪt/ us /slaɪt/
small in amount ...
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disadvantage
noun[C or U]
uk /ˌdɪs.ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/ us /ˌdɪs.ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition or situation that causes problems, especially one that causes something or someone to be less successful than other things ...
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Examples of slight disadvantage


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This is a slightdisadvantage to the tenant, who would have to pay two and a half instead of two valuations.
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I believe it would be grossly unfair and biased if clubs were seen to operate at this slightdisadvantage.
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But it is going to find itself at a slightdisadvantage as a result of this increase.
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There is always a slightdisadvantage when one has to try to explain these matters to one's constituents.
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This community, which has about the same status in civilisation otherwise, is subject to one slightdisadvantage.
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This may not prove to be so much a subsidy on natural gas users as a slightdisadvantage to those who use oil burners.
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These debates are traditionally conducted on a non-party basis, which puts me at a slightdisadvantage.
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I always feel that he labours under a slightdisadvantage.
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We are, therefore, at a slightdisadvantage, which is particularly difficult when we are discussing programme policies, as we are today.
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We have been at a slightdisadvantage in that the debate took place before the publication of the next report.
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My answer is that, even granting that may happen, it is a slightdisadvantage compared with the enormous and overwhelming disadvantage of leaving the present condition of affairs unredressed.
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Although heavier gliders have a slightdisadvantage when climbing in rising air, they achieve a higher speed at any given glide angle.
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People with webbed toes may have a slightdisadvantage for activities that benefit from prehensile toes.
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A slightdisadvantage is that crossovers have to be rather long.
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However, in dim light, trichromats have exhibited a slightdisadvantage for discriminating fruit from foliage.
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That individual is at a slightdisadvantage because of the loss on the first turn.
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A slightdisadvantage is the unusual month and year counting convention.
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The untimely, mysterious loss of her vaulting poles and a nagging hamstring injury days before the event saw her competing at a slightdisadvantage.
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