The phrase "a collection of modest" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It could be used in a context where you are describing a group of items or qualities that are modest in nature, but it needs additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "The exhibition featured a collection of modest artworks that reflected the simplicity of everyday life."
Alternatives: "a group of humble" or "a set of unassuming".
Farther along on your right, you will come to a grove of pines and a collection of modest gravestones.
Even for a collection of modest size, the term-document matrix is likely to have several tens of thousands of rows and columns.
The autumn revision of the city's budget is usually a sleepy affair, a collection of modest technical adjustments to keep income and expenses in sync.
Even for a collection of modest size, the term-document matrix is likely to have several tens of thousand of rows and columns, and a rank in the tens of thousands as well.
The project was criticized for demolishing Hanyang Jutaek, a collection of modest concrete homes that, ironically, were built in the 1970s to demonstrate modernity to a visiting North Korean delegation.
Katharine Towers captivated me with The Remedies (Picador £9.99) – a collection of modest brilliance in which she takes each of Dr Bach's 1930s flower remedies and imagines how it would be were the flower afflicted with the malaise it was intended to cure.
"All Things Must Pass" builds its big sound around a collection of typically modest Harrison tunes: downhearted, folk-rock confessions.
E-Science Semantic Grids can often be thought of as a dynamic collection of semantic subgrids where each subgrid is a collection of a modest number of services that are assembled for specific tasks.
In Mr. Eggers's fictional riff on a real place, what Alan initially glimpses, however, is not the next Dubai or Abu Dhabi, but a collection of three modest buildings: a pastel-pink condominium, a two-story welcome center surrounded by fountains, and a glass office building.
"These are the people of Anna Drive". Anna Drive, a collection of squat, modest apartment buildings, horseshoes off of a busy thoroughfare.
If you take eight minutes to read it all, it's easy to tell that the plan we've just been handed is a collection of profoundly modest goals and reheated policy announcements.
