The phrase "a modest down" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a type of clothing or bedding, but without additional context, it is ambiguous.
Example: "She wore a modest down jacket that kept her warm during the chilly evening."
Alternatives: "a simple down" or "a humble down".
"It just accelerated what was otherwise just a modest down day".
Even that is a modest down payment on the larger cuts the tax plan calls for.
He planned to make a modest down payment to secure the lease and leave the rest of the money in the bank to earn interest.
Even the fare increases that have been postponed would have been only a modest down payment on the huge bill to come.
We have also suggested a possible "framework" for the lame-duck Congress to pass a modest down payment on deficit reduction in December, while pursuing a comprehensive agreement — a "grand bargain" of sorts — in 2013.
WASHINGTON — The interim accord struck with Iran on Sunday interrupts the country's nuclear progress for the first time in nearly a decade, but requires Iran to make only a modest down payment on the central problem.
Like its subjects, "Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie" has a modest, down-home feel: it's not flashy or even visually pleasing, its pace is leisurely and its intent unfocused.
His record company touts him as a mad genius with an extraterrestrial look, but he's really a modest, down-to-earth dude who draws comics, geeks out about hip-hop, is allergic to everything, and might be the unlikeliest star of country music ever.
Additionally, TERT mRNA was often undetectable by qPCR in the wtBAC LCLs, while the microarray implies a modest down-regulation.
Regarding less dramatically affected genes than the epicardial signature subset, we observed a trend towards up-regulation of vimentin, fibronectin, snail2, and MMP-2 as well as a modest down-regulation of desmoplakin in the epicardial transcriptome after injury (data not shown), all of which are associated with cells undergoing epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition [22].
A modest down-regulating effect was seen on Caki I cells at a MMF concentration of 0.1 μM.
