The phrase "a modest early" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is both modest and early, but the construction is awkward and lacks clarity.
Example: "She made a modest early attempt at the project, but it was not fully developed."
Alternatives: "a humble early" or "a simple early".
She broke alertly from the gate and was able to dictate a modest early pace.
His pacemaker, Bullet Train, set a modest early pace and Frankel settled in second.
Traders said a modest early pullback turned into a substantial decline after the Bank of America warned that its profits would miss Wall Street's expectations, its second downward revision in a month.
The FORBES GLOBAL Investment Guide is a modest early attempt to help them on their way.n.n
By contrast, in the ADHD group the grand-averaged TFR showed a modest early ERS response characterized by clusters of source power oscillating at theta, alpha, and beta frequencies.
With regard to the role of fever-range temperatures on outcome after TBI, two recent studies from our centre [ 2] (and R.H. Sacho, unpublished MD thesis) suggest that a modest early fever of 39°C or below is not deleterious to outcome at either three or six months.
In a modest, early-version of the EA.com control room, two engineers oversee large video monitors that relay traffic patterns from several sports games Electronic Arts already operates online, including the golf games Tiger '99 and P.G.A. Tour, of which tens of thousands of rounds are played online each month via Electronic Arts server computers.
Lehman Brothers economist Drew Matus sees a fundamental slump in consumer spending lasting through the first quarter of 2009, save for a modest early summer push spearheaded by government rebate checks (don't believe everyone who denies an intent to spend those checks, he argues, since people tend to answer such surveys with socially acceptable answers).
I discovered a house on the border of England and Wales not far from Hay-on-Wye, where I attempted to draw a fairly modest early Victorian house.
Reissued in this format, the modest early black-and-white photographs of Robert Rauschenberg's studio and a well-known image of Twombly's early chalk paintings are as murky as photogravures.
The band's modest early years kept their feet on the ground.
