The phrase "a modest working" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a project, idea, or effort that is not overly ambitious or grandiose, but rather practical and achievable.
Example: "The team presented a modest working plan that focused on incremental improvements rather than sweeping changes."
Alternatives: "a simple approach" or "a basic framework".
Mr Garcia, by contrast, has a home in a modest, working class section of Chicago.
For even a modest working majority, they must double their number of seats.
It was, said Emily Maitlis, the "Basildon moment", recalling that key result in 1992 which helped put John Major back into Downing Street with a modest working majority in the teeth of poll ratings which had consistently pointed the other way.
Here I am, 42, reasonably intelligent, a yearly traveler to Europe, and apart from English, all I can claim in the way of linguistic proficiency is a modest working knowledge of French and a few sparse phrases of travel Italian and high school Spanish.
Though a modest work, "Goldkind" represents a meaningful partnership between creative artists from different spheres of contemporary music.
It was taking an expressive sledgehammer to a modest work that other pianists take convincingly at face value.
Mr. Stokowski opened the program with Bernard Herr mann's "For the Fallen" (1943), a modest work of gentle lyrical charm and the orchestra made it sound very appealing.
The chance for a modest work of art (and an incidental extra bit of profit) has been squandered and lost for ever.
The two big parties work from very different caricatures of the typical pensioner – for the Tories it is a canny old widow juggling with national savings certificates and private annuities, whereas the first Labour thought is of a salt-of-the-earth Darby and Joan couple, whose reward for a lifetime of toil is a modest works pension.
It's a modest work, the first of its kind, and even includes a price guide.
All of these women project a modest work ethic, a true commitment to the people they govern, and a willingness to fight for what they believe.
