The phrase "a very modest amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quantity that is small or not excessive, often in a context where modesty is emphasized.
Example: "The donation was a very modest amount, but it will still make a difference in the community."
Alternatives: "a small sum" or "a slight quantity".
Ms. Silverman says Mr. Rider has received only "a very modest amount" of money for public relations work.
Even if it has half that - a very modest amount for this size bomb - it is still too dense.
To his credit, at the time of the latest explosion, President Barack Obama had proposed boosting OSHA's budget by a (very) modest amount – a bit less than 1%.
Regardless, it appears the university experience remains universally unchanged, and by that I mean a hazy flurry of drinking, sleeping and doing a very modest amount of work.
For performances last week, the first full week after the positive reviews, "Next to Normal" grossed $207,775, a very modest amount for a Broadway musical.
At the Credit Suisse forum in 2013, Rubenstein said of the potential savings from closing the loophole, "It's a very modest amount of money".
While accurate data to assess the level of how much spending has actually taken place since then are virtually impossible to obtain, observations on the ground in Africa suggest there has been only a very modest amounts of resources deployed.
Students have always raised faculty grading methods as their main issue with their teachers (Holmes & Smith, 2003) where they would claim that teachers are unfair in grading and give very modest amount of feedback to their performances that evidently fails to utilize assessment as a form of reinforcing instruction and convince them that they deserve the grade that they have just received.
Asked to predict the future of fracking in Europe, Mr. Stern forecast that in five years' time, a few countries would be producing "very modest amounts of shale gas".
Avoid alcohol or only consume in very modest amounts.
But let it be noted that The Times also pays in the form of money, albeit in very modest amounts.
