Sentence examples for Modestly bigger from inspiring English sources

At market values — which is what matters for the global outlook — China's economy is still only modestly bigger than Japan's; it's around half the size of either the U.S. or the European Union.

But De las Cuevas says that the computational demands of the Ising model are only modestly bigger than those of the original model.

Euchromatic regions of D. virilis are modestly bigger than D. melanogaster (see Table S2 and Table 2), and have very similar distributions of inter-CNS distances (Figure 5, cyan line).

Applications are climbing modestly after a big downturn in the mid-1990's, but they remain below the level of a decade ago.

Across the square is the Hotel Pattee, an elegant 40-room, full-service hotel where rooms are modestly priced by big city standards, typically around $140.

On the other hand, cutting Social Security, even modestly, is a very big concession, especially because, as I said, it's cruel and stupid viewed purely as policy.

Il Cinghiale — "the Wild Boar" — his new, modestly decorated trattoria, is somewhat bigger, though still intimate, and chicken parm is decidedly off the menu.

The modestly scaled photographs here (none bigger than this magazine) are typical of his output and range — from classic physique studies to staged narratives, all featuring handsome, muscular young men wearing little more than jockstraps.

Stock markets fell modestly on Friday, adding to big declines from a day earlier, and demand for longer-term Treasury debt ebbed, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year note to 3.44percentt, its highest point in six months.

Lennar, which took the biggest hit, fell modestly by 0.3%, or 5 cents, to $15.18.

The "Star Trek" movies are modestly priced compared with other big special-effects movies and studio sequels.