Sentence examples for Modest gains and from inspiring English sources

Oil and gas made and held modest gains, and both industrial and precious metals are higher.

Two others, The Washington Post Company and Wells Fargo, showed more modest gains, and four declined: Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Freddie Mac and Gillette.

To reform the system in a useful way within tight financial constraints and with only modest gains and losses should be a cause for congratulation rather than criticism".

But he says that of the schools he has worked with, only a third had dramatic results, a third showed modest gains and a third were little changed.

But the fund's historical performance shows that its efforts to limit risk have served investors well in years of modest gains and when the junk bond market is in decline.

College graduates have made only modest gains, and basically nothing after 2000; even advanced degrees weren't giving anything like the gains we see for the top 1 percent (and the much bigger gains of the top 0.1 percent).

That is a modest gain and slightly below the company's estimate of 172,000 in June.

Wall Street stumbled through a choppy session yesterday and ended mixed, with blue chips giving up a modest gain and technology stocks holding on to moderate increases.

Outside of these technology blue chips, the rest of the technology sector has had a modest gain, and has just hung on for the ride.

Once again the Australians had suffered heavy casualties for only modest gain, and coupled with those of Operation Bribie, their losses were beginning to mount.

The difference was categorised as less than −1 (BMI loss of greater than 1 unit), -1 to less than 1 (BMI stable = reference group), 1 to less than 3 (modest gain) and 3 or more units (large gain) and replicate the BMI categories used in the Scandinavian population based study reported by Villamor and Cnattingius (15).