Sentence examples for a modest start from inspiring English sources

A few million dollars is only a modest start.

This bodes ill for Italy, even though the bicamerale's proposals are only a modest start.

Given the size of the need, food and music were a modest start.

As it is with most trainers, she got off to a modest start.

This will be a modest start, and no money has arrived yet.

A Modest Start Like so many small businesses, A Child's Place was born out of personal need.

Among our neighbors, a tree was becoming a modest starting point for Christmas decorations.

Luckily, the original pair a shoes, used in the film by Michael J. Fox, are on sale with a modest starting price of $30,000 - probably a little out of Marty's budget.

The bar bill shows a relatively modest start with a bottle of Bacardi and plentiful Red Bull, before accelerating through the drinks with the air of a team who intended to remember nothing of what transpired.

"This is a very modest start that is being proposed in a very reasonable corridor," said Bob Eury, head of Central Houston Inc., which represents downtown businesses.

September looks set to get off to a characteristically modest start, with the arrival this week of Cameron Diaz-Jason Segel comedy Sex Tape (a mild $38m in the US), plus Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth in amnesia-themed thriller Before I Go to Sleep, adapted from the SJ Watson bestseller.