The phrase "a modest new" 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 new, but the phrasing is awkward and lacks clarity.
Example: "She presented a modest new proposal for the project that everyone appreciated."
Alternatives: "a humble new" or "a simple new".
For the mayor, the event may have been no more than a routine news conference about a modest new crime-fighting program, cost: $10,000.
It intends to offer a modest new version every year.
In a modest New York ceremony, he wed 42-year-old education consultant Tamiko Bolton.
There is also a modest new art gallery named for Barbara Walters, a Sarah Lawrence graduate.
And a couple of years later Bonwit's opened in a modest new building only a few yards away.
Across from a bustling Statoil gas station is a modest new commercial biogas pumping station owned by the renewables company Eon Energy.
Under its music director, Alan Gilbert, the Philharmonic has already established a modest new-music series in smaller concert halls and has installed composers and artists in residence.
The fact is that the temporary home, when it arrives factory-fresh next month, will be larger at 2,131 square feet than the residential space in the mansion, where the Huckabees and their three college-age children have had to live in about 1,200 square feet, about the size of a modest New York apartment.
They proposed no grand new time-consuming, budget-breaking monuments, but a suite of modest new bridges, along with the renovation of some great historic ones, amid a variety of green spaces.
A paved road and modest new homes now ring the school, making it a central collection point for the city's least affluent children.
In the British city of Coventry, whose firebombing mirrored that of Dresden, the remaining walls of the ruined cathedral were left in place, and in the nineteen-fifties a capacious but austerely modest new cathedral was built at right angles to the original.
