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The phrase "a very modest increase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a small or slight rise in a quantity, value, or measurement.
Example: "The company reported a very modest increase in sales this quarter, indicating steady growth despite market challenges."
Alternatives: "a slight increase" or "a small rise".
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He studied pheromones years ago and found they led to a very modest increase in the secretion of pituitary hormones.
Depending on the initial level of the unemployment rate, this approach could lead to only a very modest increase in the unemployment rate - or even a decline.
However, there was a very modest increase of 0.1 percentage point on 2014's A*-E A*-E rate, taking it upass 98.1%.
The one tentative link was a very modest increase in risk from exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chemicals that are in grilled food and in cigarette smoke.
I suggest a very modest increase in the tobacco tax that would give the Government the money it needs for, say, more drug abuse programs, while keeping the number of smokers at the current level.
A Forbes competitor, Fortune, plans "a very modest increase" in ad-page rates, in the low single digits, said Mike Federle, publisher in New York, "the most modest we've taken in my six years here".
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The costs of better wages and health plans were passed on to consumers as a very modest increases in prices.
In a separate finding, Dr. Gammon's study showed that exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, commonly found in pollutants like car exhaust and cigarette smoke, produced a very modest increased risk for breast cancer.
That would have been a very, very modest increase of around 500,000 Windows Phone handsets sold.
The very small values observed for ΔδCα strongly point to conformational averaging in the CR-bound state, with an only very modest increase in the population of α-helical backbone ϕ and ψ angles compared to what applies for disordered random coil conformations.
Math results show an overall slowdown in growth under NCLB, while reading saw very modest increase in the rate of progress.
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