During these visits, most prisoners noticed a perceptible improvement in (for instance) food quality, the German authorities seeing to it that the inspectors were fooled.

I was a painfully slow and awkward pupil, and certainly worked two or three years before I made any perceptible improvement whatever.

In "The Art of Seeing," Huxley says that "a little nose writing will result in a perceptible temporary improvement of defective vision."

"A little nose writing, followed by a few minutes of palming. . . will result in a perceptible temporary improvement of defective vision," he writes.

The Giants, with no perceptible improvement in one of the league's worst pitching staffs, have a chance to win?

Proper administration was installed, maintained and there was perceptible improvement in all matters of the State.

Some social and economic indicators showed perceptible improvement, but a portion of those gains may have evaporated since the census measured income four years ago.

His second basin-full of solution was made a little stronger, but without perceptible improvement, in its effect.

This is another area in which the prospect of a political solution depends on a perceptible improvement.

Will it become a means which brings the European Union closer to its citizens by producing a perceptible improvement in their everyday lives?