Sentence examples for a quite modest from inspiring English sources

"Each gene at most has a quite modest effect on the illness".

Measurements also produced inconsistencies: some Caucasian geniuses had very big brains, other intellectual giants had a quite modest cranial capacity.

Almost in passing, the court added that aggregate contribution limits were a "quite modest restraint upon protected political activity" that "serves to prevent evasion" of the base limits.

As the court recognized in the Buckley case, they are a "quite modest restraint" that help prevent evasion of the per-candidate limit.

Though agriculture in Saxony-Anhalt dominates much of the landscape, it plays a quite modest role in total output and employment.

"I could probably have paid for half of a quite modest central London one-bedroom flat on the proceeds of my work as a homosexual impersonator," he writes in the latest Spectator.

I think the relief of this latest report is that it shows a really quite modest increase [in temperatures], half of which has already happened.

"I think the relief of this latest report is that it shows a really quite modest increase, half of which has already happened.

I think the relief of this latest [Intergovermental Report on Climate Change] report is that it shows a really quite modest increase, half of which has already happened," he said.

The net result was a positive, but quite modest, increase in overall savings.

WHERE TO STAY Most of the hotels in Otranto — and there are just a handful — are quite modest by American standards, but clean.