The phrase "a modest event" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event that is simple, unpretentious, or not extravagant in nature.
Example: "The wedding was a modest event, attended only by close family and friends."
Alternatives: "a simple event" or "a low-key event".
* * * For a "modest event," that was still pretty huge.
* * * For a "modest event," that was still pretty huge.
It was a modest event by Paulée standards, with just six winemakers in attendance.
Fewer than a dozen people sweated through the ceremony at the Cullowhee United Methodist Church, a modest event emblematic of Thad's humble roots.
A modest event, the show was mostly disdained by blue-chip designers, who wrote off television's night of nights as a dreary also-ran.
"What has been difficult, I think, is to convey to people what the magnitude of even a modest event would constitute," he said.
Based on the currently available evidence (12, 13), aspirin appears to have a modest effect on CV events, with an absolute decrease in events depending on the underlying CV disease risk.
Based on the currently available evidence, aspirin appears to have a modest effect on cardiovascular events (RR reduction of ∼10%), with the absolute decrease in events depending on the underlying CVD risk (those with higher baseline risk should have greater absolute benefit).
Recently, the American Diabetes Association ADAA) published guidelines stating that prophylactic aspirin therapy appears to have a modest effect on ischemic vascular events with an absolute decrease in events, depending on the underlying CV risk [ 30].
Based on the currently available evidence, aspirin appears to have a modest effect on ischemic vascular events, with the absolute decrease in events depending on the underlying CVD risk.
A few blocks away, at a more modest event, about three dozen M.M.A. supporters were grinding, too.
