Sentence examples for a surprisingly modest from inspiring English sources

But we find a surprisingly modest amount of redistribution could have ended $2 poverty already.

Dinner for two -- three courses apiece -- cost a surprisingly modest $44.

Just over 1,000 pages, The Harvard Dictionary sells for a surprisingly modest $40.

For a raging megalomaniac, Hopper had a surprisingly modest visual style.

He travels home to his family in Delaware every day on Amtrak, and lives in a surprisingly modest house.

A three-course dinner for two, before tax, tip or drinks, came to a surprisingly modest $37.

More critically acclaimed books about Korea, which he revisited in 2003 for the first time in five decades, and a quartet of romance novels about East Hampton, the swish Long Island resort village for New Yorkers where Brady had a surprisingly modest-looking home on one of the wealthiest streets near the beach.

The spread from low to high was a somewhat surprisingly modest 28% as measured by the FC method.

Once inside, sitting on a banquette in the surprisingly modest dining-room, things take a turn for the posh.

He is not witty or clever in the style of Chris Rock, and for a man who makes a fortune, he is surprisingly modest.

This week, Mr McCain unveiled a cut that is surprisingly modest by Republican standards: $240 billion over five years, half Mr Bush's promised $483 billion reduction over the same period.