The phrase "a modest average" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a level of performance, quality, or quantity that is neither high nor low, but rather moderate or unassuming.
Example: "The team's performance this season has been a modest average, reflecting their consistent but unspectacular results."
Alternatives: "a reasonable average" or "a fair average".
Builders pay a modest average of 4% of a transaction's value, extractive companies a hefty 21%.
Twenty Tests have brought 52 wickets at a modest average of 40 and questions over his place in the seam-bowling line-up.
This was a relatively dry year for Serie A – with a modest average of 2.51 goals per game – yet at times it felt like every one that did go in was a viable contender for this award.
However, in this third experiment the LsV3 and LsVF3 F1 generations originated from the third egg string pair of adult F0 females, displaying a modest average knockdown of 66 and 83% of LsRV-No9 and No127 strain, respectively (Table 1).
In 12 seasons, and nearly 5,000 plate appearances, he was well established as a power hitter with a modest average, but his ascension to the top of the batting leaders is no more shocking than that of Derrek Lee, a Chicago Cubs first baseman, who led the N.L. with a.335 average in 2005 after hitting.266 in his first eight seasons.
The tour of Australia in December and January also finished in a 4-0 whitewash for India and this time Dravid was less prolific, passing 50 only once, in the first innings of the first Test, and returning a modest average of 24.
Finally, the wage associated with each job offer is assumed to be log-normally distributed, with mean μ and variance σ 2. The parameters with the best empirical fit (Table 2) indicate a fairly large dispersion of offered wages around a very modest average.
After hitting a low of 10.3 last week, the forward P/E for companies with a market capitalization of under $1 billion and growing faster than 30% stands at a very modest average of 13.3 (median currently only 9.3).
Most expect a more modest average wage gain in February.
Nationally, though, she leads by a relatively modest average of 26 points, up from 19 points at the beginning of October.
This weekend's shower peaked at a far more modest average of 10 meteors a minute, Mr. Berman said.
