The phrase "a modest transfer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a transfer that is not large or significant, often in a financial or resource context.
Example: "The company made a modest transfer of funds to support the local charity."
Alternatives: "a small transfer" or "a slight transfer".
If they exercise his option, any deal in Europe would bring a modest transfer fee.
Sheppard, who is under contract with Ajax Cape Town, a club that has a development agreement with Ajax Amsterdam, could join the MetroStars on loan, or else M.L.S. would have to buy his contract and pay a modest transfer fee.
The "they" Wolff spoke of was TSV 1860 Munich, a club in the Bundesliga 2, where he had played sparingly since a December 2006 transfer that earned Major League Soccer a modest transfer fee of about $191,000.
We find that a modest cash transfer, equivalent to approximately 2% of the consumption of the median recipient household, had a substantial impact on school attendance, approximately 25 percentage points.
Contrary to his caricature of a parsimonious chairman, Daniel Levy is prepared to break the club's modest transfer record (about £16.5m on Luka Modric) for the right player.
There is little upside to the Red Bulls' peddling either Ream or Agudelo for what, now, would be modest transfer fees.
Although the change in testosterone levels was significant and measurable, Danska calls it modest: "Transfer of the male microbiota to young females did not elevate levels of testosterone anywhere near levels of a normal male, though the metabolic and immune effects were profound".
But their implacable opposition to a modest cash-transfer programme for the poorest, implemented by Mr Colom's wife, Sandra Torres, betrays a complete lack of social solidarity.
Relatively modest transfers could leave it needing a lot of extra capital: up to $13 billion if it took on a mere one-fifth of its mortgage securitisations, reckons Mr Hendler.Mr Pandit insists that Citi is "getting fit" and will reap the rewards, once the fruits of the restructuring become clear.
One Cambodian programme resulted in the second-largest decrease in child labour of all CCTs, even though it offered quite modest transfers (about 2% of the total expenditures of the average recipient household).
I vote for the last, in which White, ever modest, transferred his wife's homage to his good gray heroine — transferred it but kept it, for in a poem, "Natural History," addressed to Katharine from Toronto in 1929, he had already identified himself as a spider: Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider's web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.
