The phrase "a modest bit of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or slight amount of something, often in a humble or understated manner.
Example: "After a long day, I treated myself to a modest bit of chocolate to lift my spirits."
Alternatives: "a small amount of" or "a slight touch of".
You're seeking only to do a modest bit of good, and thus you can't go wrong either way.
Allowing for a modest bit of hyperbole, 2000 should be a good year for Beaujolais, and there are plenty to choose from.
The smallest shares enjoyed a modest bit of popularity, with the Small-Cap index adding 2.4 points to close at 2250.5.
Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?" After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list.
It's a modest bit of proof that we might do well to solve problems by thinking about how we act, Sternin remarks, rather than acting upon how we think.
CHICAGO -- Dinner theater, that derided and mostly moribund genre, is making an unlikely comeback at the Lookingglass Theater here, where one of this city's most renowned chefs, Rick Bayless, is preparing a savory meal onstage, and doing a modest bit of acting in a modest little comedy too.
Labour has said it would raise tax "a modest bit more" for the highest 5percentt of earners –anyone on salaries above £80,000 – but ruled out a rise in tax for the other 95percentt of earners.
Eighteen months in the Pacific with the 112th Cavalry, seeing "modest bits of action", according to his own account, but rising only to the rank of sergeant technician - which actually meant "first cook" - provided the material for The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948 to great acclaim and instant celebrity for the 25-year-old author.
Eighteen months in the Pacific with the 112th Cavalry, seeing "modest bits of action", according to his own account, but rising only to the rank of sergeant technician, which actually meant first cook, provided the material for The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948 to great acclaim for the 25-year-old author.
They are grouped into Anglo-sounding "families," like the Belvedere or the Ebury, in mostly huntsman colors, with perhaps a modest tassel or bit of grosgrain ribbon for adornment.
Judging from the opening credits of "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," Robert Rodriguez, whose antic spirit also animates the "Spy Kids" franchise, is both becomingly modest and a bit of a control freak.
