The phrase "a modest level and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a certain degree or extent of something that is considered moderate or not excessive.
Example: "The project requires a modest level and consistent effort to achieve the desired results."
Alternatives: "a reasonable degree and" or "a moderate amount and".
"Most of the C.E.O.'s I talk with," Mr. Chambers said, "view the economy as growing at a modest level and are a little more cautious in their outlook than they were a quarter ago".
Delayed 19 months by a local antinoise regulation that was overturned in court last month, the planes glided in two minutes apart, their noise at a modest level and the protest movement against the Concorde evident only in orderly groups of 15 or so pickets at airport entrances.
Before they can get aid, parents are expected to devote 47% of aftertax income (above a modest level) and 5.6% of nonretirement-account savings to college costs each year.
This was also observed to a lesser extend in BT-474 cells that express a modest level of CDKN1C, and at low rates in MDA-MB-231 and MCF10A cells that express abundant CDKN1C.
All the characters in the first third of the book are working class, and Mailer describes them in ways that reflect a modest level of diction and psychological sophistication.
"It has given us one of the most robust balance sheets in the industry with a modest level of debt and substantial liquidity".
We found that only now less than 1 in 10 companies achieve even a modest level of sustained and profitable growth over a 10-year period on average.
We found a modest level of variation and few haplotype blocks, as expected for pseudogenes in general.
We also evaluated the introduction of a campaign to encourage consumption of fruit and vegetables and the provision of price subsidies for fruit and vegetables, but these are able to avert only a modest level of disease burden and are accordingly not cost effective in relation to their effect on colorectal cancer alone.
"But given the current situation," he said, "the Guggenheim project has to be rethought, perhaps on a more modest level, and certainly in the context of the city's master plan for the development of Lower Manhattan".
We tested for significant LD for TL and CH chromosomes, which are both derived from the SC arrangement, and found a modest level of nonrandom associations among sites within and between loci.
