The phrase "a modest order" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a request or command that is not overly demanding or large in scale.
Example: "The restaurant received a modest order for a small gathering, which made it easier for the kitchen staff to manage."
Alternatives: "a small request" or "a simple order".
If the ADR volume is thin, even a modest order might push away the price.
It has become crystal clear that this case is not about a "modest" order and a "single iPhone," Opp. 1, as the FBI Director himself admitted when testifying before Congress two weeks ago.
Besides, there is room for performance improvement by recurring to a joint estimation approach while keeping overall complexity at a modest order, thereby resulting in a significantly improved performance vs. complexity trade-off.
If one of the Carnegie's enormous pastrami sandwiches is not your idea of a proper late-night snack, perhaps a more modest order of cheese blintzes will ease you into dreamland.
Saudi Arabian Airlines, serving by far the largest population and land area, operates a fleet of 119 planes and has an unusually modest order pipeline of just 42 planes, of which only eight are widebodied A330s.
The 2005 Mets are not unlike the 1973 version, with a deep starting rotation, a headlining ace and a modest batting order.
Even with a modest nonlinear order of 3, a 5×5 MIMO system has 100 times more parameters than the corresponding SISO system.
According to Lee, it was Spielberg who pushed for such a modest episode order.
Its target domain is computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems with simple geometries and schemes of modest order but with multiple physical processes, multiple time scales, and complex forcing.
Now they can make such changes, and even if the aggregate improvement is only of this modest order, it can over time help them to advance steadily on their rivals.
Its shares have dropped 5.5% to 241.8p following the update, and analysts at Peel Hunt said the modest order intake in the second half was slightly concerning: Carillion has much to offer and the shares are not expensive on a headline PE and yield basis.
