Sentence examples for a modest base from inspiring English sources
The increase starts from a modest base: the individual shows still attract fewer than a million viewers, on average, though its big hits draw well over two million.
FDI into Africa almost doubled, although from a modest base, rising from $9 billion in 2000 to over $17 billion in 2001.
Though starting from a modest base, China's trade with the African continent reached $18.5 billion in 2003, an increase of 50percentt since 2000, and it is on track for another big increase this year.
The idea is that the manager should receive only a modest base fee to help cover his fixed costs, but should take a bigger share of the gains when he succeeds in delivering alpha.Unfortunately for clients, the alpha delivered by the average fund manager is negative.
(Such weights are used to adjust a bank's assets for risk, in order to calculate capital requirements).Consumer credit in India is growing from a modest base, of under 5% of GDP, says K.V. Kamath, chief executive of ICICI, India's second-largest bank; it is nowhere near the level in South Korea, which suffered a consumer-credit boom and bust a couple of years ago.
Like other wholesalers, Christian earns a modest base but gets a small piece of the assets she brings in.
This is on a relatively modest base at the moment: the company has told a Dutch publication that annual revenue is $23 million€2020 million), with sales doubling in the last year.
It has a modest industrial base and is a marketplace for agricultural products.
Even supporters of the health law say that eventually covering 10 percent of that cost would have been onerous for a predominantly rural state with a modest tax base.
The panel rated two types of treatment, one focused on memory and the other on social skills, as having a "modest" evidence base.
Efforts had been made to build a modest industrial base suitable for domestic needs, and timber processing and rice milling, which were important before 1975, were revived in the 1980s.
