The phrase "a modest accomplishment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an achievement that is not overly grand or significant, often implying humility or a sense of moderation.
Example: "Completing the project on time was a modest accomplishment, but it set the stage for future success."
Alternatives: "a small achievement" or "a minor success."
This may seem like a modest accomplishment but represents a fundamental rethinking of the very basis of our current workflows, data structures, and technologies by a small group of intrepid individuals within a largely traditional -- yet rapidly shifting -- organization.
It's a modest accomplishment, and the devil may yet be in the details, but it's clearly a positive signal that Japan's political and business elites can work together more effectively.
Not only is this Imogen in charge of Ice Dancing – a modest accomplishment, surely, for any uncannily glamorous being – but she can't even get a measly ribbon back without assistance from small girls!
It asks simply this: if Australia's latest wunderkind Michael Hooper's English father, a forward of relatively modest accomplishment with Blackheath, had stayed at home, would Saturday's man of the match have looked quite so capable of stepping so easily into the fabled boots of such as George Smith and David Pocock?
For 56 Division I-A teams, a berth in one of 28 bowl games will be their reward for the modest accomplishment of posting a record of.500 or better during the regular season.
"Then She Found Me," a serious comedy, is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.
(In 1970 Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times that the troupe's standards never drop below "at least modest accomplishment").
(Dargis) 'THEN SHE FOUND ME' (R, 1 40) This serious comedy about pregnancy and adoption is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.
(Scott) 'THEN SHE FOUND ME' (R, 1 40) This serious comedy about pregnancy and adoption is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.
Knowledge of her senseless, untimely death makes the final scenes of Waitress especially painful to watch, and the sturdy, modest accomplishment of the film can hardly begin to make up for the loss.
This seemingly modest accomplishment of measuring educational achievement in six subjects and twelve countries is really monumental when we consider the state-of-the-science at the time: there was no internet or email and calculating regression parameter estimates could take up to 24 h (Ramcharan 2006).
