The phrase "a modest less" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect combination of words and does not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "I would prefer a modest less in the budget for this project."
Alternatives: "a slight reduction" or "a modest decrease."
So, given Amdahl's Law, changing the compute engine without improving the memory can only have a modest (less than 2x) change in energy efficiency.
Given the degree to which elite private and public colleges have moved away from a focus on advancing social and economic mobility toward a process that actually retards such mobility, it could be understandable that Congress is moving to a apply even a modest (less than 2percentt) annual tax on unrelated business income accruing to their endowments.
On the other hand, samples containing non-culturable cells that were not heat-treated, but were likewise exposed to DNase I for 24 h, had only a modest (less than 2 cycles) decrease in their Ct values.
There was only a modest (less than twofold) increase in scrC mRNA level when the wild-type or crzAΔ strains were exposed to calcium.
For example, ribavirin monotherapy results only in a modest, less than a 1 log10 decline in viral levels, 104 does not increase the rate of nucleotide substitutions, 108 and does not improve the first-phase virological decline in combination therapy with PegIFN-α.
That money could be put to so much better use and lead to a more modest, less endlessly bombastic organisation.
Other parallels come to mind: Jim Jarmusch without the relentless pursuit of cool; a more modest, less clowning Jacques Tati.
Should they abandon ambitious plans for a thrust stage to address the hall's problematic acoustics and proceed with a more modest, less expensive plan?
Still, a browse through the profiles on the site reveals its users are far from the hideous creatures they perhaps imagine – and surely they're a more modest, less self-absorbed bunch compared with those who sign up to the raft of beautiful-people-only dating sites.
It is a modest space — less than a hundred seats — and held together, Flanagan says, with duct tape and spray paint.
Middle East phone sales grew a modest 4.5%–less than in Europe.
