Sentence examples for Quite a modest from inspiring English sources

Given the marquess's suspicions, "posing" seems quite a modest accusation.

It concluded that immigration provided a net benefit to the American economy of around $10 billion, quite a modest sum when set against an $8 trillion economy.

At about 0.8% of GDP, Austria spends quite a modest amount on defence, and compulsory military service for its young men is now a mere six months.

Even President Bush's administration has recently indicated that it will give environmental satellite data free to poor countries.But that vision is also quite a modest one.

"Messaging 2 or 3 times as many potential partners to get a date seems quite a modest investment," say the researchers.

Given the size of the company – 320 stores employing about 5,500 people with a turnover of £12m a week – this seems quite a modest number.

Journalists never let you just say yes or no, they always want more.' Quite, but a modest profile may not be in her favour if she wants to win tonight's BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

And even the hair of the ex-punk rawker has gone quite sensible, a modest bleached shock taking the place of the untoward and less-than-kempt flaming red dreadlocks that "graced" his head until recently.

If you accept this, it is quite possible that a modest rise in interest rates and the associated recovery in sterling will not damage the recovery.

Even so, they observe a quite modest reduction of disparities between countries, i.e. a lack of sigma convergence.

Four years later, in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (2014), the court also struck down FECA's aggregate-contribution limits, which the Buckley court had characterized as a "quite modest restraint upon protected political activity" and as "no more than a corollary of the basic individual contribution limitation that we have found to be constitutionally valid".