Sentence examples for a very modest one from inspiring English sources

They turned a profit, even if only a very modest one (€51,922) on their accounts for 2014.

Only one piece of gun legislation is being proposed as a consequence of the Arizona shooting, and this is a very modest one – to ban the manufacture and sale of the kind of high-capacity magazine used by Loughner.

His second completed project in Toronto is a very modest one: a sales pavilion for a condominium developer.

Like I said in the beginning of this review, I have a very modest diet, one that's not conducive to putting on weight, be it in the form of solid, manly muscle or John Biggs fat.

In the piece I wrote for Psychology Today about friendship and money, I profiled a woman who made all her own money and had a very modest existence, one she shared with a girlfriend who later came into a significant inheritance.

And it shows that the Obama administration is willing to take steps, albeit very modest ones, toward its stated goal of nuclear abolition.

In other words, a very modest increase of one minimal wage level in income increased the chances of suicide in a high-risk cluster by 5.6%, and an increase of five minimal wages levels increased the chances by 31%.

United States District Judge Jed Rakoff sentenced Angelo Meneghello and Christine Beyer to what he called a "very modest but real prison term of one week".

While Douglas is right when he claims 'there are some emotions such that a reduction in the degree to which an agent experiences those emotions would, under some circumstances, constitute a moral enhancement' 22 this is a very modest claim indeed, and I for one am sceptical that we would ever have available an intervention capable of targeting aversions to the wicked rather than the good.

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.

Of the generated models, only one structure (model 7) showed a very modest improvement in enrichment (Table  2; table S5 in the Supporting Information).