These slightly deeper quartz grooves result in light-wave phases that are slightly off-kilter from the light waves that pass through shallower grooves.
And by emphasising its cheapness rather than its basic but appealing qualities, it deterred slightly better-off consumers who could afford one but aspired to more sophisticated vehicles, such as those from Tata's biggest rival, Maruti, the leader in India's small-car market.
The gardener had pointed to a thick bamboo stem and explained that if a pebble was thrown at it and it hit the trunk slightly off-centre, it would bounce off and make hardly any sound.
Petrov remained silent, and the lawyer, perhaps slightly off-stride, didn't demand an answer.
Hamilton's gameplan kept him ahead of a slightly off-color Raikkonen, who was hindered by a car damaged after contact with the luckless Kovalainen at the start.
Meanwhile, as crude oil moved slightly higher off multi-month lows, the m100 availed themselves of several names in the energy complex.
The new-look McLaren MP4-19 was slightly off the pace as defending Australian Grand Prix champion Coulthard was almost 1.5 seconds off the lead.
Journe had sold it last year, but now the oil inside was sticking--only a bit, but enough to throw the split-second calibrations slightly off.
Spin-off stories are slightly better at capturing that sort of detail than a grand trilogy with a demand for an epic story.
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The banking sector was also slightly higher elsewhere, shaking off credit-rating downgrades on 15 major financial firms from Moody's.
Webber admitted that he was slightly off the pace of his team-mate.
Stingel hung it slightly askew so that the viewer feels off-kilter.
The Kallis delivery that got him out, pitched outside off-stump and seaming slightly away, could perhaps have been left by someone who had been at the crease longer.
In a simplistic and very rough calculation, that comes to 200 more branches being sold off - or a chunk slightly larger than Lloyds TSB Scotland.
Off-season, seconds or slightly-defective items are still a draw, but in many cases, brand new merchandise is also available.
F5 Networks (FFIV) shares are poised for a huge sell-off this morning, after just slightly disappointing results for the December quarter.
Tendulkar and Laxman picked up where their predecessors at the crease had left off, albeit at a slightly slower run-rate.
Thousands of slightly damaged and display copies will be 50-75% off at 10 stores worldwide next week, including in Miami, New York, London and Berlin.
Viewing angles were actually pretty impressive -- at least in comparison to the other glasses-free 3D displays we've seen -- and tilting our head slightly didn't throw off the 3D effect too much.
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We currently forecast that monthly page views per visitor on Tripadvisor.com will improve slightly in the years ahead, following a significant drop-off between 2009 and 2010 as the economic recession stifled the vacation market.
If you're thrilled by dual-core processors, extremely high-res screens, large camera sensors, customizable widgets, expandable storage, USB mass storage and other such features, then you'll be better off with Android or -- to a slightly lesser extent -- iOS, because that cutting-edge stuff is currently absent on Redmond's OS. On the other other hand, if you want to be part of a carefully crafted, simple and generally happy emerging ecosystem, then look no further.
He looked slightly embarrassed as he did it, but the self-promotion paid off.
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He is not a team man, and has a disarming habit of making impulsive, off-the-cuff sallies which look only slightly better in opposition than they would in office.
The gloss was removed ever so slightly from Messi's record-breaking night when Alves was sent off after conceding another penalty, converted by Siqueira, and defender Adriano was sidelined for 10 days with a leg injury.
Commercials also sawed off significant amount of gross shorts, leaving them slightly net-short.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average ended the morning down 2.19 percent at 8, 377.75, a three-week low, though it is recovering slightly as the afternoon sets off.
Brazil saw off the challenge of a slightly disappointing Chile to seal a mouth-watering quarter-final tie against the Netherlands .
The Northern Ireland international slid into a 50-50 challenge with Holden with his studs showing and his foot slightly off the floor.
Product revenue fell off slightly by 2%, but climbed up 11% from the first-quarter.
They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.
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